<story><title>Google Has Quietly Dropped Ban on Personally Identifiable Web Tracking (2016)</title><url>https://www.propublica.org/article/google-has-quietly-dropped-ban-on-personally-identifiable-web-tracking</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>petilon</author><text>If you want to see an example of the devious means now employed by Google, open Chrome settings and turn off &amp;quot;Allow Chrome sign-in&amp;quot;. Then go to Gmail and sign in. You are now signed into Chrome, regardless of the setting. By signing into Gmail you are sharing your identity with the browser itself.&lt;p&gt;Microsoft&amp;#x27;s Chromium-based Edge can&amp;#x27;t arrive soon enough.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mulmen</author><text>It still blows my mind that any technologically literate person would use Chrome as their primary browser in 2019.  Or 2018, or really ever.&lt;p&gt;The incentives for Google are perverse, this is really simple reasoning.&lt;p&gt;Google will continue their MS-esque Embrace-Extend-Extinguish march until only Chrome is left.  That people who should know better willingly enable this disaster terrifies me.</text></comment>
<story><title>Google Has Quietly Dropped Ban on Personally Identifiable Web Tracking (2016)</title><url>https://www.propublica.org/article/google-has-quietly-dropped-ban-on-personally-identifiable-web-tracking</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>petilon</author><text>If you want to see an example of the devious means now employed by Google, open Chrome settings and turn off &amp;quot;Allow Chrome sign-in&amp;quot;. Then go to Gmail and sign in. You are now signed into Chrome, regardless of the setting. By signing into Gmail you are sharing your identity with the browser itself.&lt;p&gt;Microsoft&amp;#x27;s Chromium-based Edge can&amp;#x27;t arrive soon enough.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>swebs</author><text>&amp;gt;Microsoft&amp;#x27;s Chromium-based Edge can&amp;#x27;t arrive soon enough.&lt;p&gt;Eww, so you can have your data harvested by an even more evil and scummy company? Why not just use Ungoogled-Chromium or Firefox today? Hell, even Safari would be better.</text></comment>