Re:Judge in Google case disturbed that 'incognito' users are...
by testesttest on Friday February 26, 2021 @09:22PM
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Fair, I have no evidence they use fingerprinting info for advertising.
They definitely cluster fingerprints to block whole groups as does any decent antibot.
Re:Judge in Google case disturbed that 'incognito' users are...
by woofie11 on Saturday February 27, 2021 @04:57AM
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They definitely do some form of fingerprinting for content optimization. After browsing in incognito, Youtube was sketchily on-topic.
(esoteric science/technical topics which wouldn't come up by chance)
They have admitted to using those sorts of information for fraud detection to detect fake ad clicks, bulk account creation, or other malicious activity. I also suspect they do some clustering on this data to determine what accounts are related so if there is malicious behavior from a cluster of accounts that appear to be the same user they can act on the whole cluster.
But there is no evidence that they use fingerprinting for targeting advertising.