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  1. Cerulean Spark Cerulean Spark

    A $17 million fine will really teach Google a lesson. It takes them almost two hours to generate that in revenue.

    Tuesday, 19-Nov-13 10:01:21 UTC from web
    1. Eris Eris

      @ceruleanspark Oh. Welp. What were they fined for, out of curiosity?

      Tuesday, 19-Nov-13 10:20:00 UTC from web
      1. Cerulean Spark Cerulean Spark

        @coffeecream Rearchitecting their tracking cookies to bypass anti-tracking measures.

        Tuesday, 19-Nov-13 10:23:34 UTC from web
        1. Eris Eris

          @ceruleanspark Wow.

          Tuesday, 19-Nov-13 10:25:46 UTC from web
          1. Cerulean Spark Cerulean Spark

            @coffeecream I guess it'd be hard for the US government to meaningfully criticise them for spying on people though

            Tuesday, 19-Nov-13 10:31:44 UTC from web
            1. Pony Pony

              @ceruleanspark oh buuurn!

              Tuesday, 19-Nov-13 10:33:24 UTC from web
        2. Pony Pony

          @ceruleanspark I wish they'd been fined a lot more, but hopefully now that they've been fined once it won't happen again, or if it does the precedent will impose much stiffer penalties.

          Tuesday, 19-Nov-13 10:31:10 UTC from web
          1. Cerulean Spark Cerulean Spark

            @pony How much did the NSA get fined again?

            Tuesday, 19-Nov-13 10:32:29 UTC from web
            1. Pony Pony

              @ceruleanspark I don't even know. I haven't followed it and the news hasn't made a big deal of it. :P

              Tuesday, 19-Nov-13 10:35:12 UTC from web
              1. Cerulean Spark Cerulean Spark

                @pony To borrow a phrase from someone else "The NSA did nothing wrong"

                Tuesday, 19-Nov-13 10:37:17 UTC from web
        3. adiwan adiwan

          @ceruleanspark I thought that google would use the browser fingerprint and IP to circumvent any use of cookies.

          Tuesday, 19-Nov-13 10:36:25 UTC from Choqok
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            xrevan86 xrevan86

            @broniebrown I heard they reattach cookies by this.

            Tuesday, 19-Nov-13 10:47:37 UTC from loadaverage.org
            1. adiwan adiwan

              @xrevan86 Yep. I read this a couple moments ago that this is possible.

              Tuesday, 19-Nov-13 10:50:04 UTC from Choqok