I might have misunderstood this but is Android really trying to push this as tracking as a privacy upgrade, simply because it let’s us choose which of our interests we want advertisers to have access to?
I might have misunderstood this but is Android really trying to push this as tracking as a privacy upgrade, simply because it let’s us choose which of our interests we want advertisers to have access to?
well it’s an improvement…
basically the tracking is still there but runs locally on your phone, so google only knows this
someone with ip 1.2.3.4 is interested in sports, cats and videogames and is looking to purchase a new monitor
(and the info is sent with every ad request, statelessly) google promises they won’t associate these requests with ip addresses, but I won’t trust them.
instead of a full log like:
user x with tracking id 12345 visited catworld.com at 10:34:56 PM and stayed there for 35 seconds
user x with tracking id 12345 made a purchase on website shoptech.com and was scrolling through the monitors page for 10 minutes.
it’s still tracking but it sucks less i guess…
and making it a default is probably a great move
(I’d rather opt out of any form of tracking tho)
And since only Google knows it strengthens their data monopoly even further, as if it wasn’t bad enough already.
… checks to see if catworld.com is real.