The wretched Chrome Client Hints, another Doomsday of privacy: ways out of it.

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4 hours ago, D.Draker said:

https://www.theregister.com/2020/02/05/google_chrome_id_numbers/

A very worthwhile read.
I just have to wonder just how many folks will actually read it (we live in a Twitter/X/Whatever society with an attention span of only ONE sentence at a time) [Even members of MSFN will "complain" if a reply is more than three sentences]!
I think I counted 28 paragraphs (give or take).  And to me, you have to get all the way to paragraph 19 (67.9% into what I suspect most will classify as "TL;DR").

 

The Cliff Note version -
1)  Google claims the goal is to reduce fingerprinting for the browser itself (Chrome, in this case)
2)  MARKETERS are against the goal - MARKETING AGENCIES want fingerprinting to INCREASE (societal norm, you can never take away free cheese after your constituants are accustomed to receiving free cheese)
3)  Google isn't just a "browser", they are ALSO a MARKETING AGENCY! (Google owns DoubleClick)
4)  Google is clerverly playing both sides at the same time!  DECREASING overall fingerprinting but at the same time allowing a BROWSER-SESSION that visits YouTube, Gmail, Fitbit, Waze, DoubleClick in that same session has the "data" from each other!