Re:Google Chrome browser privacy plan investigated in UK
by zaroth on Friday January 08, 2021 @09:23AM
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This is a very good reason in and of itself to stop using Chrome. What you're describing is a very real attack by Google through a kind of regulatory capture on any possible competitor.
Basically, the only tracking solution that becomes viable is their own.
If you log into a Google account in Chrome, you log into Chrome itself with that Google account. Then Google tools can use your account as an identity signal. This is already available as a feature in Google Ads and Google Analytics. The name of the feature is "Google Signals" - they've posted documentation on how it works and what it does.
This identity signal works cross-domain and cross-device. Google is working to kill off other identity signals with those capabilities that would be available to competitors, such as third-party cookies. (This is also why I believe them when they say they're actively working against browser fingerprinting.)