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Re:No Cookie for You by mrtksn on Thursday December 17, 2020 @04:17PM (#25460557)
What do you mean by in house tracking?
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Re:No Cookie for You by BlueTemplar on Thursday December 17, 2020 @05:17PM (#25461250)
Across Microsoft services like Github, Office365, Bing, LinkedIn, Windows...
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Re:No Cookie for You by mrtksn on Thursday December 17, 2020 @05:20PM (#25461279)
yes but what does it mean tracking? having an account? keeping a tab of last time you used it?
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Re:No Cookie for You by BlueTemplar on Thursday December 17, 2020 @05:31PM (#25461375)
Some identifier tied to a time and "place" (service)?
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Re:No Cookie for You by mrtksn on Thursday December 17, 2020 @05:43PM (#25461500)
To do what exactly?
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Re:No Cookie for You by vrperson on Thursday December 17, 2020 @08:06PM (#25462601)
Learn at what moment your defenses are down so that they can sell you stuff, presumably. Isn't that the general assumption about tracking?

Or sell your data to interested parties. Maybe if you liked certain GitHub repos, you are more likely to vote Democrat or whatever.

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Re:No Cookie for You by BlueTemplar on Friday December 18, 2020 @03:16AM (#25464972)
I'm not sure that the GDPR really cares what is being done with that information? It cares more about who that information is being shared with, and about your consent.
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