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Re:A new round of antitrust questions can’t go well for Google by antisemiotic on Sunday June 02, 2019 @06:00AM (#20074512)
I think there's a difference between gathering information that's necessary for the service at hand (giving your IP address to a server, or your current location to a cell phone network) and milking the user for all identifying information that can be gathered (asking for the user's gender to create a shop account, browser fingerprinting by scanning plugins and canvas hashing, etc).
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Re:A new round of antitrust questions can’t go well for Google by studentrob on Sunday June 02, 2019 @06:27AM (#20074592)
Regardless, how is breaking up Google going to stop such tracking?

I've asked this question twice now. We can't just break up companies because they collect data. That's not anti-trust.

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Re:A new round of antitrust questions can’t go well for Google by antisemiotic on Sunday June 02, 2019 @06:40AM (#20074638)
Well that's a question for SomeOldThrow, I don't know how breaking up Google would help either.
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