Re:Firefox tracking protection decreases page load time by 44%
by dangrossman on Saturday May 23, 2015 @07:32PM
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I didn't downvote you, but...
> google goes to huge lengths anonymising data to aggregate you as a user into groups of millions for advertisers to bid on, you are simply not a big enough fish for special treatment
You're mixing different products and people here. That may be true of Google Analytics data (I don't know either way), but it's not true for their advertising services. Google purposely tracks individual people in a non-anonymous way in order to sell remarketing products, to e.g. show a banner of items currently in your Amazon shopping cart alongside an article you're reading at CNN through their AdSense/DoubleClick platforms.
Re:Firefox tracking protection decreases page load time by 44%
by throwawayaway on Sunday May 24, 2015 @03:12AM
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is that not amazon sending cookies?
http://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=5160028011
i don't how that is google tracking you individually. can you please elaborate?
in any case, the analytics data is anonymised and as such cannot be used to identify you. google goes to huge lengths anonymising data to aggregate you as a user into groups of millions for advertisers to bid on, you are simply not a big enough fish for special treatment.
edit: an explanation for downvoting is customary.