In a radical privacy policy shift, Google announced today that it will begin tracking users across all services—email, Search, YouTube and more—sharing information with no option to opt out. The change was announced in a blog post today, and will go into effect March 1.
By using the NoScript plugin on Gizmodo’s post about this Google policy change, you discover:
- Gizmodo is running the DoubleClick tracker, which is a Google-owned company that runs advertising analytics
- and Scorecard Research
- and Facebook Analytics
- and Quantserve, which is known spyware
- and Chartbeat, analytics and something sinister calling itself “engagement monitoring”
- Parsely, web publishing “insights” (predictive analytics)
- Google Analytics
Real concerned about our web privacy, huh?
Ghostery (http://www.ghostery.com/) kills off those trackers and cookies as well.
hey, dumbasses, other websites do this all the time using TRACKING COOKIES. Sound familiar? Google is just doing the...