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If you're in the EU, you can now decide how much data to share with Google

by fariszr on 1/20/24, 5:23 PM with 29 comments

• by ranguna on 1/21/24, 11:21 AM

  I checked https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/14202892?sjid=152... and I don't have a "linked Google services" section, what gives?

  I'm from the EU.

• by giuliomagnifico on 1/20/24, 5:57 PM

  I checked some days ago and -for me- by default all the sharing services were disabled. Looks like it’s a opt-in feature (I hope).

• by mediumsmart on 1/21/24, 7:20 AM

  I heard about Google. Do folks still use it?

• by lifestyleguru on 1/21/24, 12:16 PM

  Housing market - absolute catastrophe

  Taxation - 40% of monthly payslip goes... somewhere

  Inflation - cumulative 20% in Eurozone for the last 4 years

  War - anytime now

  Meantime EU - "let's talk about fine grained privacy settings and preferences"

• by jackjeff on 1/20/24, 9:26 PM

  In the long run Google probably does not care that much. They’ve been busy moving the tracking into the browser itself with the Protected Audience API.

  Technically they don’t track you personally and nobody has a database of your preferences. The browser does and just runs auctions to serve you ads.

  This kind of tech renders the DMA, GDPR and cookie banners moot, while keeping the money printing machine that is Google Ad business running.

• by estiaan on 1/21/24, 4:37 PM

  Huh, I guess I live in the EU now…

• by powerapple on 1/21/24, 9:29 AM

  Google will punish you hard if you don't share information with it. Soon you will realize that it will constantly bother you because it cannot trust you (because it does not have your information). Say if you let it track you all the time, and if you happen to forget your password, you may still be able to get the access to your email account back. I disabled all tracking, and I have not been able to access my 10+ year old email account. If I knew this, I would be happy to ask Google to track me 24/7.