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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
(Score: 2) by Hairyfeet on Saturday October 22 2016, @07:41PM
I'm just glad I recently got my wife a Lumia while they are on sale, between Google rigging search results [macdailynews.com] for the party they have bought [wsj.com] and now this bullshit? I may just have to buy myself a Lumia as well. I gotta say its a damned nice phone and unlike Android I can uninstall pretty much any app on the phone, even being able to replace core apps with third party apps if you want.
It really feels more like a desktop than a phone when it comes to how it handles apps (which isn't surprising since its Win 10 Mobile) and IDK about everyone else but I like being able to decide what the default apps are and what is and isn't on my phone. I USED to be able to do that with my Android phones but more and more phones don't get a modded ROM anymore (and with Cyanogen all but toast I doubt it'll get better) and its getting harder and harder to get rid of Google crap you do not want.
As far as avoiding Google BS on the desktop? Grab a browser and use it ONLY for the Google services. I personally like the Comodo browsers, I use Comodo Dragon as my main browser while using Ice Dragon STRICTLY for Gmail and YouTube with it set to delete history on exit. This way I don't have to worry about clearing on my Dragon and Pale Moon, privacy badger keeps out any page trackers and adblock plus takes care of the rest, so if Google looks at my history? AFATK all I do is go to Gmail once a day and watch a couple of YouTube War Thunder vids...that is all they can learn because that is all that browser does.
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 22 2016, @11:11PM
So you have a separate network connection for your google browser? To avoid them correlating the IP addresses.