Google tracks individual users per Chrome installation ID
I haven&#x27;t read this carefully enough to decide exactly how bad it is, but one thing seems clear to me:<p>From what I  see many techies are now aware and upset, and hardly anyone seems to want to defend Google anymore.<p>I consider it more likely than not that Google will take some real beatings in the years to come. Kind of like Microsoft was fined by the US and EU, forced to advertise for competing browsers and ridiculed by Apple ads. On a case by case basis I think some of this will be well deserved, some less so, but few outside of employees and shareholders will cry.<p>I also <i>guess</i> a lot of people, including certain owners and many in management hasn&#x27;t deciphered the writing on the wall yet, and in that case it whatever comes next will be surprising.