Ring Doorbell App Packed with Third-Party Trackers

Re:Ring Doorbell App Packed with Third-Party Trackers by jason0597 on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @05:28PM (#22174793)

I'm already thinking of doing any "sensitive" searches (i.e. stuff i would rather google not know, e.g. my mental health state) on google through chrome's incognito mode, but then I think about it more and I realise that if I do a search on incognito mode, the browser probably knows and marks it as an extra special search and hence becomes even more "sensitive" (and reports back to Google)

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Re:Ring Doorbell App Packed with Third-Party Trackers by eternalny1 on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @06:36PM (#22175392)

Tor browser.

Incognito mode does literally nothing. You're still doing your Google search from the same IP address so they still know it's you and store it the same as anything else.

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Re:Ring Doorbell App Packed with Third-Party Trackers by panarky on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @05:48PM (#22174970)

Why fear super secret conspiracies like this? What we already know for a fact is horrible enough.

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Re:Ring Doorbell App Packed with Third-Party Trackers by kdtsh on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @05:53PM (#22175021)

If you’re worried about Google knowing, you shouldn’t use Google’s browser. While they might not mark searches like that, we don’t know what Chrome does when we tell it to search for something we’re sensitive about.

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Re:Ring Doorbell App Packed with Third-Party Trackers by buckminster on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @06:50PM (#22175511)

If you’re worried about Google knowing, you shouldn’t use Google’s search engine!

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Re:Ring Doorbell App Packed with Third-Party Trackers by gsich on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @06:18PM (#22175253)

Same IP increases the likelihood of being the same user tremendously.

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