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Re:Google tracks individual users per Chrome installation ID by cmroanirgo on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @07:36PM (#22242830)
Just yesterday I had to disable anti fingerprinting I'd enabled in Firefox because despite having a solid IP and and existing cookies to login to Google, it's security system rejected me, even after answering security questions. Turn off fingerprinting and I could log in.

So, this is a round about way of agreeing with the hidden dark patterns that Google are bringing to the web. It must stop.

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Re:Google tracks individual users per Chrome installation ID by svnpenn on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @07:59PM (#22242992)
I have to log into Gmail just to pass captchas. Every time I do it I die a little inside.
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Re:Google tracks individual users per Chrome installation ID by asdff on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @01:24AM (#22244470)
All the more reason to keep bad actors in containers isolated from the rest of your web browsing. Google can fingerprint me all they want if that gets their rocks off, all they'd see is my gmail inbox that they see anyway.
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