Comment on Digital Fingerprinting: Google launched a new era of tracking worse than cookie banners | Tuta
treadful@lemmy.zip 3 days agoWhat is it you’re looking for? Do you want to know what kinds of information is used for fingerprinting?
If so, check out coveryourtracks.eff.org and amiunique.org.
Balinares@pawb.social 3 days ago
I’m aware of fingerprinting techniques, thank you. The article is claiming that Google will start using some of those and I’m looking for the source for that claim, hopefully with specifics about which techniques are involved. Confusingly, the article does not appear to provide such a source.
balder1991@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I think the true source is this one?
Some reactions to it.
Balinares@pawb.social 2 days ago
Thanks – that’s an announcement about policy updates. I already read it and it says nothing about fingerprinting. The only change to underlying technologies it mentions are the use of e.g. trusted execution environments (the doc for which, per a further link, is in fact on github). Those seem to claim that they let announcers run ad campaigns through Google ads while keeping their campaign data provably locked away from Google. So, basically, all these links are about purported “privacy-enhancing” techs, and you’d be forgiven for taking that with an enormous grain of salt, but either way, nothing in there about fingerprinting.
The Guardian article basically paraphrases the Tuta one – or it’s the other way around, maybe – but does also not provide actual sources.
I just want a source on what fingerprinting Tuta is claiming Google will start using. It feels like that should be front and center to this discussion.
balder1991@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Yeah I also looked into it and there seems no concrete information on that, just speculation about the policy change, like this one:
When you dive into it, it does look more like companies that sell encryption and VPNs taking some potential danger and blowing it out to get more subscribers.