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0 pointspilsetnieks4y ago0 comments

Because Google's, Apple's and Microsoft's accounts specifically are tied to their particular browser and/or OS, not just the websites you're on.

So are Firefox accounts but they probably don't have the numbers to engage in any particularly egregious behavior.

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TekMol4y ago· 2 in thread

What kind of mechanic are you describing? Are you saying the browser is phoning home, telling Google which sites you visit?

pilsetnieksOP4y ago

Yes. You can turn it off, though, if you take Google at its word.

https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/54068?hl=en&co=G...

chefandy4y ago

Well, Chrome obviously does if you’re ‘signed in’ to Google and haven’t turned off their sync settings… which I imagine is the most common end user path, and chrome is the most popular browser. https://www.google.com/chrome/privacy/

nightpool4y ago

Are you saying that Google is using their control of the user agent to specifically tie a Google auth cookie to an individual third-party-context web request even when third party cookies are blocked? If so, that would be a major scandal. What evidence do you have that this is the case?

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