Re:EU Launches Probes into Apple, Meta, Google Under New Dig...
by amf12 on Monday March 25, 2024 @09:08PM
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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
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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.
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?