Google has quietly dropped ban on personally identifiable web tracking (2016)

(2016) - note the first line: This article was originally published by ProPublica on October 21st, 2016.

I'm surprised that this change did not receive much publicity when it was rolled out. Could it be that journalists did not look into what the changes entailed, or should I put a tinfoil hat on? It seems a bit... convenient that we are only now getting to know this when its already been active for many months.

Personally I never browse logged-in to Google or Facebook, and only use Chrome minimally. If I do need to use Gmail or Google Calendar, I either launch a private window or use a Container Tab in Firefox.

Original article is from 2016 - https://www.propublica.org/article/google-has-quietly-droppe...