Google tracks most users by them simply being logged in everywhere.
I was working in this space a while back when FLoC was the next thing and the joke was that FLoC was just for the rest of us. Google always holds all the cards
logged in everywhere
Maybe, maybe not. Firefox market share is trivial at this point. I doubt Google invests a lot of time in figuring out how to track Firefox users specifically. Safari, especially on mobile, is a far more juicy target.
Combine that with standard fingerprinting techniques.
Can you explain this? I don't thinks this is the case. Disclosure: I work at Google but not on Chrome.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/12/google-agrees-to...
That doesn't sound like any sort of tracking backdoor in Chrome. That sounds like that same type of tracking would happen in Firefox private browsing mode. Well, maybe not because I think Firefox private mode has some sort of code that tries to strip out trackers. But if you disable that feature in Firefox, it sounds like Google would track Firefox private mode users the same as Chrome incognito users. I guess then you could consider the lawsuit to be complaining that Chrome doesn't have a feature to strip out trackers in incognito mode. Is that a realistic feature expectation?