⚡️🚨 ALERT: On February 16, 2025, your online anonymity will disappear.

(Yes, even if you block cookies.)

Google has quietly decided to allow advertisers to use fingerprinting—a method that identifies your device without cookies.

Your IP address, your browser, your operating system, your time zone… all of this becomes your new "digital fingerprint."

The problem?

Unlike cookies, you can't erase it.

Impossible to block. Impossible to oppose.

This is a real disaster for privacy.

The ICO (the UK data protection regulator) is already sounding the alarm:

“This change is irresponsible. Users cannot give their consent or control their data.”

So why is Google backtracking?

Because advertisers are in a panic.

Cookies are disappearing, and they absolutely need to track you in another way.

The question now is: what can you do?

✅ Use a VPN (but that’s not enough)

âś… Regularly change your browser

âś… Enable anti-fingerprinting protection (Tor, Brave, specific extensions)

âś… Use Nostr (Follow nostr:npub1f4uyypghstsd8l4sxng4ptwzk6awfm3mf9ux0yallfrgkm6mj6es50r407)

And most importantly, stop believing the myth that "Google protects your privacy."

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Boycot Google, thanks for sharing this @flash. Time to ditch, all Gmail and the whole Google ecosystem.

If someone has to use Google for work, does it help to keep all Google-related activity in one browser?

Google is the biggest danger to privacy.

use SearXNG

#Degoogle

Ban these profit seeking business models.

I get for some stopping to use Gmail or other Google products might be harder. But ditching Chrome is a quick and easy first step.

Would be great if you will continue to update on this. I knew ZERO about it before reading this..

Ublock Origin

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I know you can fingerprint by extensions too, but not if their scripts are blocked from running in the first place.

I have been being stalked and will be changing phones & carriers. Tell me what to pick for security, please..

Privacy is an illusion. But making it harder for Google to harvest my data? I'm in. Screw 'em.

fingerprinting browsers is around for decades.