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posted by cmn32480 on Saturday October 22 2016, @02:36PM   Printer-friendly
from the and-no-one-was-surprised dept.

Google has decided that your privacy is no longer their "number one priority" and reversed their long-standing policy towards anonymous online ad tracking and user names; the Google DoubleClick advertising database will now be combined with all other information Google has on users, such as from Gmail and all other accounts and logins.

excerpt of the new policy:

We may combine personal information from one service with information, including personal information, from other Google services -- for example to make it easier to share things with people you know. [...] Depending on your account settings, your activity on other sites and apps may be associated with your personal information in order to improve Google's services and the ads delivered by Google. [...]

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article source:
https://www.propublica.org/article/google-has-quietly-dropped-ban-on-personally-identifiable-web-tracking


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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by pTamok on Saturday October 22 2016, @05:47PM

    by pTamok (3042) on Saturday October 22 2016, @05:47PM (#417618)

    It may not survive, but Sailfish OS may be a possibility. It is no longer possible to buy a Jolla 1 phone, but it is possible to get the Intex Aqua Fish phone in India, and there are various sellers who will send one overseas. The Aqua fish uses Sailfish OS.

    I am hoping for European availability of reasonably-priced Sailfish OS phone, especially as my Jolla 1 has a cracked screen. People have had varying luck in importing the non CE-marked Aqua Fish into Europe.

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 22 2016, @07:05PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 22 2016, @07:05PM (#417633)

    Let it go.

    Jolla is dead. It exists only as an investment for Putin so he can claim technological independence from the West.

    The competent developers all quit two years ago leaving behind the finance and marketing departments who ditched their loyal followers for Russian cash.

    It's dead. Let it go.

    Best to back Ubuntu phone or Tizen or Neo900 if you rally care about an alternative.

    • (Score: 1) by pTamok on Wednesday October 26 2016, @10:18AM

      by pTamok (3042) on Wednesday October 26 2016, @10:18AM (#418909)

      Do you have any links/evidence to support your statements?

      At the moment Sailfish OS looks to be used, if not insanely popular. The most downloaded app in the Jolla App store has been downloaded more then 50,000 times - which is minuscule beer compared to iOS and Android, but it is significantly non-zero, and does not include the apps downloaded from the Intex Store as the Intex Aquafish is set up to use Intex's store by default rather than the Jolla one.

      A new revision of Sailfish OS 2 came out yesterday, so even if the best developers have gone, some development work and/or bugfixing is going on, so the platform is not dead yet. If you can support your statements that imply that it is breathing its last, please do, but at the moment, I cannot find corroboration.