Google Has Quietly Dropped Ban on Personally Identifiable Web Tracking (2016)
If you want to see an example of the devious means now employed by Google, open Chrome settings and turn off "Allow Chrome sign-in". Then go to Gmail and sign in. You are now signed into Chrome, regardless of the setting. By signing into Gmail you are sharing your identity with the browser itself.<p>Microsoft's Chromium-based Edge can't arrive soon enough.