Google User Tracking

Comments discuss Google's extensive tracking of user data through search, accounts, browsing, ads, and other services, raising privacy concerns about data collection, ad targeting, and whether features like incognito mode prevent it.

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Sample Comments

grey-area Jun 23, 2013 View on HN

What makes you think that stops google logging what you're doing? They explicitly reserve the right to continue to do so.

budu3 Aug 3, 2011 View on HN

Are you worried that Google knows nothing about you? :)

sidcool Jan 17, 2024 View on HN

Does this mean Google knows what we are looking at?

jacksmith21006 Apr 4, 2018 View on HN

Do not think Google mhas anything to worry about. They can just tie ads to the content instead of the person. Plus search does not require other data as ads are associated with what you are searching.

throwaway45349 Jul 25, 2020 View on HN

You do realise Google doesn't use this data to target ads, right? Nor do you need an account.

motters May 26, 2011 View on HN

The comments here seem to be overwhelmingly positive, but if I were to use this routinely doesn't it mean that not just my search information but also my financial information is available to Google to analyze and/or sell to advertisers or make available via backdoor APIs?. Google already has a lot of information about a lot of people.

abruzzi Aug 31, 2012 View on HN

Google is doing all of this, but not publicly. Through Google accounts, Google+ and even just search cookies, Google has most of the same or similar information, but their goal isn't to provide it to you in a data analysis, but to use it for ad targeting.

fallingup Sep 7, 2013 View on HN

You're still tracked if you don't use Google products.

FirstLvR Nov 12, 2020 View on HN

all google apps tracks you, even using google news does not help

nigamanth Nov 24, 2022 View on HN

The chances are, geotracking or not google knows a lot about you and this just adds on to the data.