Profit over privacy? Google gives advertisers more personal info in major ‘fingerprinting’ U-turn

Google has reversed its policy on 'fingerprinting''Fingerprinting' is a technique used to collect personal user dataUsers have very little say over what information is given to advertisers Do you sometimes…

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“A tracking cookie farm for profit” – report claims reCAPTCHA has caused 819 million hours of wasted human time, and billions in Google profits

reCAPTCHA tests are not particularly effective at blocking security threats, research claimsSecurity tests are also costing millions of hours in lost time for usersNew 'invisible challenges' could be an alternative…

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