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“Hey Google, stop tracking me”

41 pointsby happybuyover 5 years ago

2 comments

Tepixover 5 years ago
This article is wrong in that the generated id is not unique (see yesterday&#x27;s discussion at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=22236106" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=22236106</a> ) and Google&#x27;s statement at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;chrome&#x2F;privacy&#x2F;whitepaper.html#variations" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;chrome&#x2F;privacy&#x2F;whitepaper.html#variat...</a>. The id certainly makes tracking individual users a lot easier by making their browser fingerprint far more unique.<p>Also there are no headers named &quot;X-Client-header&quot; or &quot;X-Client&quot; that I am aware of. The header name is &quot;X-Client-Data&quot;.<p>Users who want&#x2F;need to stick with Google Chrome for now can change its desktop shortcut to always launch with the parameter “--reset-variation-state”. Yet another hoop to jump through...
jeen02over 5 years ago
Free ad for a badly written article.