Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome
Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome
Chrome now directly tracks users, generates a "topic" list it shares with advertisers.
If you can, use Firefox.
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Seems like a quick hop to chrome://flags allows one to disable this. chrome://flags/#privacy-sandbox-ads-apis
Ads aren't evil though. They are the main method of making people know about new things. Intrusive and privacy-defeating tracking is.
And nowadays, most online ads are intrusive and privacy-defeating tracking, so you know
Yes, absolutely. As far as I can tell, Privacy Sandbox could help with that.
You know what really helps for privacy? Adblockers.
The big problem with Privacy Sandbox is who is implementing it. I was on the fence about it for similar reasons until I saw who came out against it. Mozilla, the EFF, etc. all heavily condemned it, so I knew it was safe to say its bad (limited time, unlimited desire for knowledge and all I did not have the time to do a deep dive on Google's newest way to get people okay with invasive tracking)