Contrairement aux cookies, qui peuvent être supprimés ou contrôlés depuis les paramètres du navigateur, l'empreinte numérique repose sur des signaux qui persistent même si les utilisateurs suppriment leurs données de navigation. On peut donc craindre que les utilisateurs soient suivis et identifiés à leur insu, ce qui compromettrait leur capacité à préserver leur vie privée en ligne.

En 2019, Google a déclaré : « contrairement aux cookies, les utilisateurs ne peuvent pas effacer leur empreinte numérique et ne peuvent donc pas contrôler la manière dont leurs informations sont collectées. Nous pensons que cela porte atteinte au choix de l'utilisateur et que c'est une erreur ». Aujourd'hui, Google estime que « des avancées technologiques ont permis d'améliorer les techniques de protection de la vie privée des utilisateurs sur Internet ».

Quelles avancées?

I shortened my sentences. I used keywords that Google could identify easily. I wrote in a way that allowed Google to understand our content, following a set of nebulous rules laid out by the overlords. The rules were never expressly stated, but trial and error from millions of people that came before our blog seemed to point to a common path. And that path was “Juicy Info Nuggets”.

In September of 2023 Google started rolling out what it called its “Helpful Content Update“. The stated goal of this update to search results was to reduce the amount of spam and AI-generated crap that littered the internet. The actual result? The destruction of small publishers, blogs, and the Rise of Reddit.

And where does that leave bloggers, small publishers, and the like? Well, after years of training online publishers to write in a fashion that Google web crawlers could easily identify, in easily digestible nuggets of information, Google will be taking those nuggets and giving them away for free. Because hey, when you’re a huge monopoly you can do whatever you want.

Google a favorisé ses propres produits au détriment de Equativ pour pratiques anticoncurrentielles.

Google dépose plainte pour abus de position dominante par Azure de Microsoft.

Microsoft enfermerait ses clients dans des conditions d’utilisation très défavorables au déménagement vers d’autres solutions hébergées, surtout à cause des coûts de migration.

Est-ce qu'ils connaissent Firebase ?

Cela n'empêche en rien que Google a raison de porter plainte, car les arguments sont présents.

La Commission pourra faire appel de cette décision.

Oups. Les mots de passes de 15 millions d'utilisateurs sont dans la nature.

The utility of captchas are contested. Even for the reCaptcha v3:

reCAPTCHA v3 has fared no better. In 2019, researchers devised a reinforcement learning attack that breaks reCAPTCHA v3's behavior-based challenges 97 percent of the time.

Only Google will be able to return results from Reddit.

So all https://goog.gl URL will be down after August 25th, 2025.

Another reason to switch to another browser

Google without AI: this is a wrapper around google. The query contains exactly &udm=14 to avoid AI.

VLC is not updated anymore on the Google store.

Google will no longer back up the Internet: Cached webpages won't exist anymore. See https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/02/google-search-kills-off-cached-webpages/.

The author put thoughts into caching webpages. Each link should have metadata associated to it: a favicon or an image, a description and the main language of the page.
They are already many projects for it.

Maybe some tools to remove these watermarks will be developed soon.

the company announced today it’s not going ahead with the proposed API.

See the first question heading of https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2023/11/increasing-trust-for-embedded-media.html?m=1

About a downfall of Google

Even if the subscribing form includes non-binary participant , advertisers have in contrast an "Unknown".

While Google doesn’t allow ads to exclude men or women from jobs, housing, or financial products, they did allow advertisers to exclude the “unknown” category, leaving those outside of the gender binary excluded as well.

Just the way this data gets labeled already shows how much of an afterthought gender diverse people were.

#idea #project: create many categories that fit better than male, female and "unknown". A better list?

If we don’t include and prioritize people from minoritized groups in our design and tech practices, we risk not only collecting incomplete or incorrect data, but also processing and using it in biased and harmful ways.