Comment by rurp
6 months ago
Yeah, crazy to think that Google of all companies would track people in unexpected ways :eyeroll:.
Your post is evidence that the scrutiny Google gets is actually helping matters. Companies, especially powerful ones, should default to not tracking personal data any more than necessary. I'm glad to hear that at least one department took that seriously.
Exactly. In a world with sufficient anti-trust and privacy enforcement Google would instill into their employees a fear of even thinking about pulling stunts like this. Instead we have Googlers and ex-Googlers running defence for it claiming they see nothing wrong.
In such world, no one does anything without running it by the lawyers first, and then a months long debate occurs around every single little move, and nothing gets done.
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Tracking is very rarely useful to the application but can be useful to the company when the application isn’t profitable on its own. Google has demonstrated this before.
This is almost precisely backwards. Developers want so much telemetry for their applications, almost all of which is totally useless outside of the need to debug or improve that application.
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> People's imaginations run far ahead of reality.
Can you really blame people for that when the company in question has been enmeshed in a case like this [1] involving Chrome.
1: https://www.reuters.com/legal/google-settles-5-billion-consu...
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