| > These companies are just as much to blame, if not more, than Google itself. However, exact same thing applies for Facebook and all the likes. If a website is entirely self-contained, nobody other than your ISP or your browser/OS may track you over there as you directly type its name out to the address bar. If Facebook is to blame more than the websites putting their like button on their websites, then so is Google. On top of this, many people use Google as a gateway to the Internet. Even for the websites that they are pretty sure about their domain names, people rather search for it on the google.com, and follow the link from there. This allows Google to track them, even when they do not use Chrome. Yet, many even do use Chrome, very likely tracking you even when you do not visit a website through google.com. So Google isn't even dependent so much on the other websites using their analytics, definitely not as much as you state with: > Google's ability to track users is 99% entirely due to companies like [...] It would be interesting to know the breakdown of contributions of Analytics, google.com, Chrome, etc. to Google's tracking capabilities. |
It would be interesting to actually see the breakdown between Google's 1st party tracking (direct-from-Google) vs Google's 3rd party tracking (Tracking thanks to 3rd parties)
>If Facebook is to blame more than the websites putting their like button on their websites
I think the problem here is how Facebook sold the user data and/or used the data to target - as it allowed much more narrow demographic targeting than I think even Google provides. (I could be wrong on this, I've never actually USED either for ads - although I work for a company that does so I really should probably know this...)