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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:33:14 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120126113314.28857d24@digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201201261007.53041.michaelkintzios@gmail.com>

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On Thu, 26 Jan 2012 10:07:51 +0000, Mick wrote:

> BTW, it seems to me that if you access youtube and at the same time
> search Google without being logged in to any of their portals, they
> will not be tracking your email for user profiling purposes.  They may
> be logging IP addresses but it could be different users on the same IP
> address, so advertising results would not be relevant.

They can track a lot more than IP addresses, your browser can provide a
lot of information, not just user-agent but installed fonts, plugin
information and much more. There is enough to do a damn good job of
identifying you even when your IP address changes. It is certainly simple
to see if you are one user or two.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Nymphomania-- an illness you hear about but never encounter.

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-01-26 11:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 69+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-26  7:16 [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes Dale
2012-01-26  8:47 ` J. Roeleveld
2012-01-26  8:48 ` Michael Mathurin
2012-01-26 10:07   ` Mick
2012-01-26 11:33     ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2012-01-26 12:56       ` Mick
2012-01-26 13:50         ` Neil Bothwick
2012-01-26 14:05           ` Michael Hampicke
2012-01-26 14:10             ` Michael Mol
2012-01-26 14:16               ` Dale
2012-01-26 14:34                 ` Michael Mol
2012-01-26 16:04                   ` Frank Steinmetzger
2012-01-26 16:14                     ` Michael Mol
2012-01-27  0:38                       ` William Kenworthy
2012-01-27  1:49                         ` Michael Mol
2012-01-27  8:47                         ` Neil Bothwick
2012-01-26 16:20                     ` Mick
2012-01-26 18:36                     ` Mike Edenfield
2012-01-26 16:12                   ` Paul Hartman
2012-01-26 16:18                     ` Michael Mol
2012-01-26 16:18                     ` Michael Hampicke
2012-01-26 16:24                       ` James Broadhead
2012-01-27  6:41                         ` Graham Murray
2012-01-27 14:53                           ` Michael Mol
2012-01-26 20:45                 ` Daniel da Veiga
2012-01-26 15:13             ` Neil Bothwick
2012-01-26 15:23               ` Michael Mol
2012-01-26 14:12           ` Mick
2012-01-26 15:12             ` Neil Bothwick
2012-01-26 21:29               ` Alan McKinnon
2012-01-27  0:48                 ` Peter Humphrey
2012-01-27 12:21                   ` Mick
2012-01-27 12:31                     ` Neil Bothwick
2012-01-27 12:59                       ` Mick
2012-01-27 13:13                         ` Neil Bothwick
2012-01-27 13:24                       ` Alan McKinnon
2012-01-26 21:47               ` Michael Hampicke
2012-01-26 23:02                 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-01-26 18:09     ` Florian Philipp
2012-01-26 19:30       ` Mick
2012-01-26 19:52         ` Michael Mol
2012-01-26 20:06           ` Paul Hartman
2012-01-26 20:57           ` Neil Bothwick
2012-01-26  8:58 ` Walter Dnes
2012-01-26 12:36 ` Timo Briddigkeit
2012-01-26 13:07 ` John J. Foster
2012-01-26 13:59   ` Dale
2012-01-26 15:22     ` John J. Foster
2012-01-26 15:28       ` John J. Foster
2012-01-26 16:08     ` Frank Steinmetzger
2012-01-27  0:08       ` Dale
2012-01-26 16:38 ` Paul Hartman
2012-01-26 17:11   ` Lorenzo Bandieri
2012-01-26 17:35     ` Mick
2012-01-26 17:38     ` Paul Hartman
2012-01-27  6:57 ` Dale
2012-01-27 18:49   ` Florian Philipp
2012-01-27 14:48 ` v_2e
2012-01-27 16:14   ` Paul Hartman
2012-02-08  8:55     ` Pandu Poluan
2012-02-08 15:46       ` Paul Hartman
2012-02-08 15:53         ` Michael Mol
2012-02-08 17:17           ` Pandu Poluan
2012-02-08 18:28             ` Michael Mol
2012-01-29 14:35 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2012-01-29 19:12   ` Dale
2012-01-29 19:47     ` Mick
2012-01-29 23:57       ` Chris Walters
2012-02-08  8:01 ` Dale

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