132
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 10 Sep 2026
132 points (98.5% liked)
Privacy
10726 readers
104 users here now
A community for Lemmy users interested in privacy
Rules:
- Be civil
- No spam posting
- Keep posts on-topic
- No trolling
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
yes, but in this case that metadata is now attached to the newly created burner account. and if you use your personal android device then google knows that it's your burner account.
Do you know what de-anonymization online can do?
Exactly, de-anonymize you, based on your behaviour patterns collected over years and decades and any data they can lay their hands on. It doesn't matter if you switch accounts or phones or both every week or even type of device.
If every one of your new accounts/devices is at the same place, is awake at the same time, uses the same apps, has the same typing rhythm, browses the same websites at the same time of day and logs in with the same accounts and sings the pokemon theme song in the shower every morning and walks in the park twice a day with dog barking and "good boi" sounds happening in closest proximity to the tracking device you carry in your pocket - they'll be pretty sure it's the same person.
Wasn't there a scandal just last week about Samsung smart tv's recoding audio nonstop and sending it to their servers, even when they are "turned off"?
And even if you are a hermit that cut off all their devices and access to the internet altogether, other peoples devices will collect data about you, enumerate you as a seperate entity from the device holder and keep collecting and patternmatching.
You make it sound like google did this specific thing on accident.