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A new SafetyDetectives study reveals the surprising extent of Google tracking across the web in the US, UK, Switzerland, and Sweden. Discover how Google Analytics, AdSense, and YouTube embeds collect your data, even when using DuckDuckGo.

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    5 days ago

    The article doesn’t mention how they do this? Cookies, fingerprinting?

    I am getting really tired to always have to adapt to this devious shit.

  • Blaster M@lemmy.world
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    Decentraleyes plugin’s even more important it seems.

    Decentraleyes: Emulates these APIs locally instead of making the calls to these services, reducing the chance of tracking via apis.

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        4 days ago

        For a while I was active on the old kuketz-blog forum and the devloper was, too. I was impressed with how they handled communication & improvements. Anyhow, I have always used LocalCDN since then. I also like the name better because it immediately clarifies what it does.

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    Study shows that all google domains are firmly blocked in my NoScripts (or rather not unlocked) and can suck my ass.