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Automation, the illusion of caring

Automation, the illusion of caring

This time, there was no notice e-mail at all. It was taken down, and there was no clear reason behind it, no notice, nothing. Google, a company that violates privacy of millions of people, took my hard work down without any explanation. And when they did this, they could have

Deconstructing Google’s excuses on tracking protection

Deconstructing Google’s excuses on tracking protection

let’s be clear: cookies were not supposed to enable third-party tracking, and browsers were supposed to block third-party cookies. We know this because the authors of the original cookie technical specification said so (RFC 2109, Section 4.3.5). * First, large scale blocking of cookies undermine people’s privacy

Google, Facebook, and The Creepy Line

Google, Facebook, and The Creepy Line

Google also makes most of their money via this same type of keyword-based advertising that doesn’t require any search-history tracking. So why do they track it all then? Because Google is not really a search company; they are an advertising company. On Google, your searches are tracked, mined, and