Digital Fingerprinting: Google launched a new era of tracking, but you can fight for your privacy! | Tuta
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As Google gives you the choice to opt out of cookie tracking, it silently erodes your privacy by tracking you with fingerprinting.
  • LWD@lemm.eeEnglish
    31·
    4 days ago

    Very good point in this article that third-party cookies can be deleted but fingerprinting - like fingerprints themselves - cannot be. And quoting Google in 2019 before they decided to be even more evil than they are now.

    This might be the best article I’ve seen about the change, and it’s posted on a company blog.

    • Onno (VK6FLAB)@lemmy.radioEnglish
      211·
      4 days ago

      The article appears to be high on repetition and low on detail. I saw very little evidence supporting the claims and even less external resources.

      What I did see was lots of links to their products.

      I’m not saying that the article is wrong, just that it’s not great.

      This BBC article cites several organisations and explains how it’s done for example:

      Edit: Added link

      • LWD@lemm.eeEnglish
        7·
        4 days ago

        Touche. I didn’t realize how many of the links in Tuta’s blog post were to their own blog.

          • jagged_circle@feddit.nlEnglish
            1·
            3 days ago

            Because with proton you can send encrypted email to people off proton with PGP. Tutanota only sends encrypted mail to other people on tutanota.

            posteo.de is a better replacement for proton. They support PGP

            • Khlo@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
              3·
              3 days ago

              I’m personally more worried about what a company is doing with my data. I.e. Google reading your emails for “personalized ads” or just straight up selling my data.

              I feel confident that Tuta is not selling my data, and that’s what’s important to me.

              On top of this, I also use my own domain, posteo does not support custom domains.

              • jagged_circle@feddit.nlEnglish
                1·
                3 days ago

                But every time you email someone else on gmail, google reads your data. Including all the companies using Google Workspace.

                But if you send PGP encrypted to a gmail user with a service that supports it (tutanota does not), then the recipients email provider can’t read it

  • Chozo@fedia.io
    33·
    4 days ago

    I’m gonna be honest, I’m skeptical of the claims this article makes. Tuta has a history of using fake emails and “updates” from competitors in order to sell their product. Last year, they spread a screenshot on their Mastodon account of a fake email allegedly from Google, announcing that Gmail was shutting down. They were told in the post that their claim was inaccurate and that the “email” they were sharing was fake, but they left their post up anyway.

    It wasn’t until they were told that they could be sued for false advertisement that they removed the post. Their response was effectively “Oops, we forgot to fact-check it before going to bed”, which I’m not sure I believe, because how do you write an entire post based on a screenshot, with the intention to sell your product, and not think even for half a second “Hmm maybe I should confirm some of these wild claims I’m about to make”? It’s either malice or incompetence, neither of which instill trust.

    I’m not saying this to defend Google, just to highlight that Tuta doesn’t take issue with lying to potential customers, and that’s something you should know before you give them your money. If they’re willing to spread such a stupid and easily-disproven lie before you’re even a customer, what are they willing to lie about once you give them your credit card?