• Lfrith@lemmy.ca
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      4
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      11 hours ago

      Yeah, but having a Google account, tying payment to it, and having viewing history all tied to it is even worse. There’s a reason Microsoft wants people to use an account on their OS is tying stuff like extended support to it because a dedicated profile is still more reliable and accurate than trying to rely solely on finger printing.

      One is so good you don’t even need to try to finger print because you already did all the work for them logging in.

      • PurpleClouds@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        1 hour ago

        I agree. All I am saying that in the limit where we all use services that respect privacy and stay away from big tech, we still have a major issue that we currently don’t have a solution for and is very hard to avoid or eliminate completely.

        • Lfrith@lemmy.ca
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          edit-2
          6 minutes ago

          Yeah, but taking approach of its all pointless just give in isn’t good either.

          Not paying and not using an account is ways to reduce how much is given to those companies.