nonymousPremium
join:2003-09-08
Glendale, AZ Reviews:
 ·Callcentric
| reply to Noah Vail
Re: Google to Mandate User Tracking - No Opt Out Well I do not have an Android phone so I do not have that particual issue.
Plus I do use Google apps for email etc. Yet when I do not wished to be traced just logout so no issue there either.
So do not buy an Android phone and do not login on a PC if wish anonymous. Or if want to say keep your Youtube use separate from gmail make two accounts. There is always a way around it. |
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 ·AT&T U-Verse
| said by nonymous: Yet when I do not wished to be traced just logout so no issue there either. Yes, because the session and cookies are the only thing that can identify a user...
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A user can be traced though various methods. IP addresses don't change like during the days of dialup. And even if they do they are usually within a /22 to /20 block. Then you have browser signatures which are more or less unique. But chances of them being unique within that block are fairly high.
Log off from account 1 and login to account 2 from the same IP and with the same browser signature... linking the two accounts is trivial, can also link to your "logged out" activity. |
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| In my time the consumer was king. Now the shareholder is...
Sad, sad, sad. |
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