Re:Google sued for secretly amassing vast trove of user data
by ocdtrekkie on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @12:45PM
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I think that's entirely fair: Websites should not track users who do not want to be tracked, but websites should decide whether or not to serve clients which aren't to be tracked.
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Re:Google sued for secretly amassing vast trove of user data
by Chabsff on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @12:54PM
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Well, ideally yes, but let's be honest here. If we can't trust websites to not abuse data, how can we possibly trust them to respect a polite request not to gather the data in the first place? I would personally rather have an incognito mode feature that I have confidence performs the task it claims to do without alerting the website, than one that loudly announces its presence, on the hope that it might be respected.
I don't trust Google, but I certainly don't want Google to trust random websites on my behalf.