[Cryptography] Depending on Google to protect your anonymity?!

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On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 6:27 AM, James A. Donald <jamesd at echeque.com> wrote:
> On 09/06/2017 1:03 PM, Chris Kuethe wrote:
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>> On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 1:37 PM, John Gilmore <gnu at toad.com
>> <mailto:gnu at toad.com>> wrote:
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>>     How much would it cost to be watching every
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>>     interaction a given user has with Google, all day, all week long?
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>>
>> https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity
>>
>> Just in case you'd like a taste of what they know when you're signed in...
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>
> This is deceptive.  Google has linked identities that I have taken radical
> measures to keep separate, even though none of those identities have ever
> signed in for anything google related.
>
> To detect some of the things that they have detected, their tracking must be
> vastly more intrusive than this link reveals.
>
> This does not mean they are omniscient - their detection is spotty, and from
> what they have caught, I know that some things they have not caught, I have
> gotten away with lots of stuff, much of which might seem easy to catch, but
> what they have caught is a lot more than you would think from this link.

Even without logging in, you can be cookied.
Even without cookies, you can retain TLS session keys
triggered by adsense, stats, CDN's, webbugs, etc...
people hardly ever mention this, test your browser.
Even without those, your browser is somewhat unique.
So much data and metadata correlatable and brokered
on the backside.