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Re:EU Launches Probes into Apple, Meta, Google Under New Dig... by woolion on Monday March 25, 2024 @08:11AM (#39815309)
How many other good engineers at Google are working on anti-competitive practice by pushing Google as default browser, providing a worse service on non-Chromium based browsers (like slowing YouTube for Firefox), etc? [Microsoft Edge does worse]

How many other good engineers at Google are working on ethically dubious practices, like tracking users that are in explicit do-not-track mode through browser fingerprinting?

How many other good engineers at Google are working on <insert any other terrible practices>?

Maybe paying a few engineers to clean up their reputation is not enough? Maybe you just picked a bad role and are looking for the wrong culprits?

Re:EU Launches Probes into Apple, Meta, Google Under New Dig... by amf12 on Monday March 25, 2024 @09:08PM (#39823224)
Do you have a source for any of these?
Re:EU Launches Probes into Apple, Meta, Google Under New Dig... by woolion on Tuesday March 26, 2024 @03:14AM (#39824982)
For the first point: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38345858

For browser fingerprinting, there doesn't seem to be many sources. There is this post:

https://community.brave.com/t/new-version-youtube-fingerprin...

Yet this is very easy to reproduce, and there is no other way to explain the personalized video suggestions in private mode.