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by csydas 2547 days ago
This is actually not feasible as a solution because of shadow profiles. Google et. al. track you even when you are not logged in. Simply landing on a page is enough to capture your use habit and infer browsing/purchasing patterns from it. Look at Google Purchases revealed to many just a bit a go. It was retroactive for sure just scanning our inboxes which Google does have access to, but it can use known information to find seemingly anonymous data from referred info in the Anon chain.

It's not really a choice to say "just don't use it", because even appearing on a site with Google tie ins feeds mineable information.

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You contradict yourself. Google Purchase history requires a google account, they can't connect it to you if you are not logged in.

The reason google pushes the log-in in their browser is exactly because they want to be able to tie this all to your account.

No, that was an example, not a requirement. Google has this history they associate whether or not you have a Google account. The account just solidifies it. You're still being tracked and identified without the account.
and that's an assumption you make that requires evidence. Your claim is that there is not only this kind of identification happening, but that it happens even if I have the common tracking blockers. Otherwise the blocklist in this thread would be completely overkill, just as I said.