Editing Soot (section)

=== October 2020: Google AdSense===

The earliest capture of Soyjak.party's """privacy policy""" page, dated October 17, 2020 contained several questionable references to Google advertisement cookies, and explicitly stated that third-party services were able to track users.<ref>(((Soot))). ''Privacy Policy for soyjak.party''. October 17, 2020. https://archive.today/2JeHY</ref>

It contained some bone-chilling sentences, such as:

<blockquote>''Google is one of a third-party vendor on our site. It also uses cookies, known as DART cookies, to serve ads to our site visitors based upon their visit to us and other sites on the internet.''</blockquote>

and:

<blockquote>''Third-party ad servers or ad networks uses technologies like cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons that are used in their respective advertisements and links that appear on Soyjak.party, which are sent directly to users' browser. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. These technologies are used to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and/or to personalize the advertising content that [[you]] see on websites that you visit.''</blockquote>

The last capture that features this wording was on November 29, 2020.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20201129105214/https://soyjak.party/privacy.html</ref> Sometime between then and December 7, 2020,<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20201207005644/https://soyjak.party/privacy.html</ref> references to third parties were removed, and were replaced with the following notice:

<blockquote>''Soyjak.party no longer shares information with any third parties, including advertising agencies and any other groups. Google adsense was removed a long time ago.''</blockquote>