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Doesn't mean that at all. Reward program would just be an example of a not-necessarily-web company that has a list of customer emails. Nothing prevents them from adding your email to that list.

The scary thing is this means Google is targeting and following us on an account basis, not just an anonymous advertiser id.

If only there was some universally accepted 'do not track' feature....



I'm curious - is there any statistic around the number of people who browse while signed in to their google accounts?Personally, I don't do that. I make a conscious effort to be signed out when browsing but I've always wondered if majority of people are like me


> The scary thing is this means Google is targeting and following us on an account basis, not just an anonymous advertiser id

this is only for "Google Search, YouTube, and Gmail"




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