# Deconstructing Google’s excuses on tracking protection - Host: [freedom-to-tinker.com](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/hosts/freedom-to-tinker.com/) - Saved: August 25, 2019 (2019-08-25T14:00:58Z) - Record: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/c5c87ae72e0a/ - JSON: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/c5c87ae72e0a.json ## What Jamie wrote Last week the WebKit team published their position on trackers and blocking them, focusing on improving privacy for those using the web. Google came out with an oddly titled response, [Building a more private web](https://www.blog.google/products/chrome/building-a-more-private-web/amp/), which got a good [Daring Fireball writeup](https://daringfireball.net/linked/2019/08/23/google-privacy-excuses). This look at the statements Google is making is thorough. > Google is trying to thread a needle here, implying that some level of tracking is consistent with both the original design intent for web technology and user privacy expectations. Neither is true. > > If the benchmark is original design intent, let’s be clear: cookies were not supposed to enable third-party tracking, and browsers were supposed to block third-party cookies. We know this because the authors of the original cookie technical specification said so ([RFC 2109](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2109), Section 4.3.5). Google gets in tough spots when they have to address privacy. Everyone knows that they thrive on user data. Limiting the ability to collect user data directly, negatively, impacts they're revenue. ## Facts - Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/) ## Appears in - [WT115: Weekly Thing #115 / Aug 31, 2019](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/115/), Featured Links 🏅 ## Saved the same week - [Drive A Tank - Tank Driving, Car Crushing, Machine Gun Shooting](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/9761d72e1b18/) (driveatank.com, August 23, 2019) - [Introducing nushell](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/be2bf64e1296/) (jonathanturner.org, August 25, 2019) - [Michael Tsai - Blog - Amazon Has Ceded Control of Its Site](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/532391197f63/) (mjtsai.com, August 25, 2019) - [Facebook wants to manage Wi-Fi on your phone](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/a89885280890/) (wongmjane.com, August 25, 2019) - [How to manage up effectively - Know Your Team | Blog](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/bf4714aa709f/) (knowyourteam.com, August 25, 2019) ## Elsewhere - Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2019/08/23/deconstructing-googles-excuses-on-tracking-protection/