Stephen Downes

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There's only one source for this story - DigiDay, which limits access (here's a screen shot) - though you can see it echoed around the technosphere - Reddit, Slashdot, Hacker News - and copied in various cut-and-paste publications. One person on Reddit also added, "Amazon also stopped including in their order-confirmation emails the details of what you ordered, on the grounds that webmail was reading that and leaking it back to Google or ISPs for their own marketing." It does raise the question of how much control websites have over being tracked themselves by browsers like Chrome that send website data to the competition. Previously.

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