[dbtqgoat]

My biggest problem with this article is that it doesn’t do anything to address built in tracking google has on many pages. Companies embed little snippets of google JavaScript so they can take advantage of analytics. As a result, google can track you whether you use their products directly or not.

[beagle3]

And that's exactly why stuff like uBlock Origin / uMatrix / Disconnect / Privacy Badger is not just ethical, it's almost a moral imperative - they stop that kind of tracking, but not fetching those snippets from Google.

Decentraleyes aids further by moving the CDNs into your own machine, killing even the little tracking enabled by those CDNs.

[owlmirror]

Right. I recently had to debug an official app to a quite expensive enterprise application and was shocked that everything you do in that app is logged with Google. When I brought this up with the company they were furious. I think they forced them to add an opt out flag. Or at least they tried.