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cross-posted from: https://fed.dyne.org/post/343234

Google Starts Fingerprint-Tracking All Your Devices In 8 Weeks

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[–] ranandtoldthat@beehaw.org 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Not to defend Google because they violate privacy in many ways, but they absolutely do not share that level of data with partners. This is not some ethical decision. The data is just far too valuable to Google. Google is extracting as much value as they can from users, advertisers, and publishers, and if they sold access to the data itself, publishers and advertisers could begin cutting out Google. Instead Google gives advertisers a lot of control over what users to target, and uses the data inside a black box to show those ads.

Google is hoarding your data and using it to show you ads with minimal built-in opt-outs. But they aren't sell your data.

[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 1 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Google is only one of a advertising and tech conglomerate, Alphabet Inc, which is the owner of Google and a lot of other companies which use your data for their and related advertisings. They control almost everything in the web.

For example