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Re:Google Tag Manager, the new anti-adblock weapon (2020) by kkjjkgjjgg on Monday February 21, 2022 @04:08AM (#30413501)
Nevertheless it could be strictly better: the new version gives the OPTION to share less data, whereas the old version does not really give you the option. If you include third party scripts, they can just send the information to third parties directly.

Google could also be audited and would then have to prove that they really didn't share ay data, or whatever.

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Re:Google Tag Manager, the new anti-adblock weapon (2020) by ImPostingOnHN on Monday February 21, 2022 @06:27AM (#30414519)
In the old way, site owners who did not want to send data to 3rd parties could just NOT insert the "send data to 3rd parties" code into their website

Now they still have that option, but users have no technical means to determine whether this is happening

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Re:Google Tag Manager, the new anti-adblock weapon (2020) by kkjjkgjjgg on Monday February 21, 2022 @07:33AM (#30415157)
In the old days, servers could still share data with third parties, so in that sense, there never was any way to be sure.
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Re:Google Tag Manager, the new anti-adblock weapon (2020) by pixeldetracking on Monday February 21, 2022 @08:27AM (#30415632)
the big difference is that I cannot audit the websites using this new version of GTM (and I don't trust marketers)
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Re:Google Tag Manager, the new anti-adblock weapon (2020) by kkjjkgjjgg on Monday February 21, 2022 @08:44AM (#30415764)
This method of the server sharing data with third parties was already possible before.
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Re:Google Tag Manager, the new anti-adblock weapon (2020) by pixeldetracking on Monday February 21, 2022 @11:52AM (#30417883)
Sure, just that Google didn't propose it
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Re:Google Tag Manager, the new anti-adblock weapon (2020) by kkjjkgjjgg on Monday February 21, 2022 @05:18PM (#30421417)
So far they only propose their server proxy thingie. Is it clear what data they intend to share?
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