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> That whole Twitter thread says nothing about fingerprinting or privacy.

I should've been more clear. In this case I was responding to this: "The reasoning here seems to be something like "Google is evil; X is an evil reason for doing Y; therefore Google must have done Y because of X". It's not a great argument."

> You are literally following the parody argument schema that I mentioned in my previous comment.

Because you have to look at the behaviour of the organism as a whole. If the shoe fits etc.



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