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Re:Deconstructing Google’s excuses on tracking protection by cameronbrown on Friday August 23, 2019 @05:30PM (#20782809)
Until all your data ends up being re-associated with you in some way across multiple websites. Nothing stopping these sites from sharing data if it ends up mutually beneficial.
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Re:Deconstructing Google’s excuses on tracking protection by yjftsjthsd-h on Saturday August 24, 2019 @10:55AM (#20787438)
Intentionally sharing data that identifies users would hit GDPR pretty quickly, no?
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Re:Deconstructing Google’s excuses on tracking protection by cameronbrown on Sunday August 25, 2019 @12:02PM (#20793664)
Yep, but it's completely invisible to users so that could be tough to prove without a data breach. And there's massive profit motive to get away with this. Right now Google still keeps these websites in check with regards to Analytics/Ads data usage, remove the middleman and things are going to get much worse.

GDPR only safeguards your data from the honest. What we need is a technological solution.

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