From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RqNbV-0001Uc-Mz for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:34:58 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3CF29E0762; Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:34:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD4A8E06B7 for ; Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:33:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from digimed.co.uk (yooden.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.6]) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C7E05804DA for ; Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:33:19 +0000 (GMT) Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:33:14 +0000 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes Message-ID: <20120126113314.28857d24@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <201201261007.53041.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> References: <4F20FDB1.1030100@gmail.com> <87ipjyvogz.fsf@gmail.com> <201201261007.53041.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.0cvs17 (GTK+ 2.24.8; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/dKelzMI6EveK4r2mg9X4L22"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 6db4d002-321c-44d8-b7f2-39340d130ada X-Archives-Hash: c73ca909a9f3c2ac0ef3a917433a825f --Sig_/dKelzMI6EveK4r2mg9X4L22 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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. --=20 Neil Bothwick Nymphomania-- an illness you hear about but never encounter. --Sig_/dKelzMI6EveK4r2mg9X4L22 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk8hOf4ACgkQum4al0N1GQOhbgCgvR8HcWks4Yx1T7CYaBlxCsmR pl4AoNMeIfob6VSq2ZejvQOtLKKBc0Ga =fnrO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/dKelzMI6EveK4r2mg9X4L22--