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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: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 23 2016, @03:26AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 23 2016, @03:26AM (#417731)

    NFI
    I tried to create a new Google account. Tried. It wants a phone number! For an email account! W.T.F.

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  • (Score: 1) by Scruffy Beard 2 on Sunday October 23 2016, @04:38AM

    by Scruffy Beard 2 (6030) on Sunday October 23 2016, @04:38AM (#417748)

    So far I have been able to ignore it.

    Except it does not let me use an alias for my Youtube channel apparently. (It worked 2 months ago, so maybe I messed something up)