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Forget Chrome—Google Starts Tracking All Your Devices In 8 Weeks (www.forbes.com)

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Google Starts Fingerprint-Tracking All Your Devices In 8 Weeks

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[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 33 points 4 days ago (1 children)

What exactly is the change being made? I don't see that the article actually explains it anywhere.

[–] BaumGeist@lemmy.ml 14 points 3 days ago

They are updating their Platforms program policies

You can read the current version, archived here

And here's the proposed changes

I haven't read it all, but some glaring changes stand out in regards to fingerprinting (no longer prohibited) and device unique identifiers (no longer prohibited from gathering). Basically, Google wants to become even more lax with how users are tracked by their advertising partners