Google has quietly dropped ban on personally identifiable web tracking (2016)

[gvb]

(2016) - note the first line: This article was originally published by ProPublica on October 21st, 2016.

[dang]

It also had a big discussion yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19076528. I wonder why it keeps getting reposted?

[llampx]

I'm surprised that this change did not receive much publicity when it was rolled out. Could it be that journalists did not look into what the changes entailed, or should I put a tinfoil hat on? It seems a bit... convenient that we are only now getting to know this when its already been active for many months.

Personally I never browse logged-in to Google or Facebook, and only use Chrome minimally. If I do need to use Gmail or Google Calendar, I either launch a private window or use a Container Tab in Firefox.

[xianb]

I think it's not just the journalists though...pretty sure some of the concerns with FB were published years ago but fell on mostly deaf ears. But now you have a public that cares more due to some "big revelations" and also a press he'll-bent on furthering the anti-SV tracking narrative

[projectramo]

Me too. Different VPN browsers, one for logged in items and the other for browsing or non-logged in work.

[jk47101]

Original article is from 2016 - https://www.propublica.org/article/google-has-quietly-droppe...