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#Google Starts Tracking All Your Devices In 6 Weeks—Forget Chrome And #Android

Long story short is that Google has made updates to its advertising ecosystem essentially _permitting_ the fingerprinting of devices for use in targeted advertising. In their words they are going to be “less prescriptive with partners in how they target and measure ads.”

Doesn’t mean fingerprinting wasn’t happening before, just that Google is giving the green signal to the rest of the ecosystem to do so… and will likely use this to maybe replace third-party cookies.

Use an adblocker. Seriously.

#privacy #ads #privacymatters #useadblockers

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2025/01/11/google-starts-tracking-all-your-devices-in-6-weeks-forget-chrome-and-android/

#PayPal is building an ad network based on your #Venmo data

Quoting: “If you’re someone who’s buying products on the web, we know who is buying the products where, and we can leverage the #data..."

They will collect this data by default - users will have to opt-out.

#privacy #privacymatters

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/28/24166381/paypal-building-ad-network-transaction-data

#ProtonMail Discloses User Data Leading to Arrest in Spain

The data disclosed was a user's backup email.

This is just a reminder that anonymity primarily comes from #opsec and data not encrypted but shared can be used against you.

#privacy

https://restoreprivacy.com/protonmail-discloses-user-data-leading-to-arrest-in-spain/