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by eek2121 1542 days ago
I have bad news for you:

- Google cannot legally protect payment information in any 1st, 2nd, or 3rd world country without explicit permission. There isn't a single country they operate in that will let them 'scrape' payment information in the manner which you claim. - Any decent adblocker blocks GA cookies. GA does NOT collect payment info. Period. If you actually bothered to read that legally binding language or if you sniffed what is passed to GA you would know that. Please head back to your conspiracy subreddit and try again. - Many folks like myself have completely left the Google ecosystem. Our adblockers block Google. We don't use google.com or Youtube. When you hit a popular Google property and notice an uptick in ads that is why. I use duck duck go as a search engine, and I personally dislike watching videos, however if you are someone who likes videos, I hear TikTok is all the rage these days.

I need to be clear here. I am not saying that it is impossible to track you, but rather, it isn't realistic or scalable across billions of users. For starters, Google would have to figure out how to beat Firefox containers or uBlock origin, and that is the simplest of problems. Next, they have to figure out how to bypass your local hosts file for a long period of time, otherwise they will get piholed...
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lstamour 1539 days ago
If you use Chrome and opt out of sharing data with Google, they can still pair the ID from origin trials with your IP address and have a very good idea of who you are - or what installation of Chrome you’re using, which is basically the same thing: https://www.google.com/chrome/privacy/whitepaper.html#variat...

If you anonymize your IP, and turn off tracking, then yes, not much to say there until they start fingerprinting the fonts you have installed or something…

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hansel_der 1542 days ago
> I am not saying that it is impossible to track you, but rather, it isn't realistic or scalable across billions of users.

so, you agree that it is possible but you didn't figure out how.

ubo and ff-containers are lipstick on a pig, they don't change the nature but the apperance (i use them nevertheless).

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