Android launches yet another way to spy on users with “Privacy Sandbox” beta
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Re: Android launches yet another way to spy on users with “Privacy Sandbox” beta
#2I don't know why the Ars Google guy is so hostile toward the company but good grief!
Every other outlet "google releasing their version of Apple's ATT"
Ars Technica guy "Google will watch you while you sleep"
Re: Android launches yet another way to spy on users with “Privacy Sandbox” beta
#3I don't know why the Ars Google guy is so hostile toward the company but good grief! Every other outlet "google releasing their version of Apple's ATT" Ars Technica guy "Google will watch you while you sleep"
Sure the criticism about Privacy Sandbox is valid.
News journalists should dog food Firefox (to encourage end users) and then avoid Chrome. (i.e) they make sure the webpages work great with Firefox. Usually everything works better with Chrome. The reason for the give would be sorry... Our livelihood depends on tracking/ads etc. Oh BTW, I (as a journalist ) am all for privacy but my corporate overlord (CondeNast incase of Ars) forces us to do this/that.
It is the same thing w.r.t. Firefox.
Re: Android launches yet another way to spy on users with “Privacy Sandbox” beta
#4I don't know why the Ars Google guy is so hostile toward the company but good grief! Every other outlet "google releasing their version of Apple's ATT" Ars Technica guy "Google will watch you while you sleep"
Yeah, ArsTechnica really has an anti-Google hardon, it's kinda a pattern where they always choose the worst possible hit piece title when it goes anything in relation to that company. When others do similar things they tend to be much more neutral.
But such is the way of modern digital media - do you think "Google creates a new Privacy Sandbox feature for Android" would bring the same type of clicks, comments and advertiser revenue than one titled "Google will spy on your in your sleep" ? :D
Re: Android launches yet another way to spy on users with “Privacy Sandbox” beta
#5What can you expect from an ad company ? Not tracking you would mean hurting their own business.
Re: Android launches yet another way to spy on users with “Privacy Sandbox” beta
#6Bottom line --- Google is privacy invasion by default.
I use e/OS with Brave browser --- privacy by default. Both based on Google source but cleansed and stripped of tracking.
Personalized ads are mainly an annoyance and a really dumb idea in my opinion. Context sensitive ads are much easier to implement, more privacy respecting and the only ones that are moderately useful and acceptable.
Re: Android launches yet another way to spy on users with “Privacy Sandbox” beta
#7I don't know why the Ars Google guy is so hostile toward the company but good grief! Every other outlet "google releasing their version of Apple's ATT" Ars Technica guy "Google will watch you while you sleep"
Yeah, ArsTechnica really has an anti-Google hardon, it's kinda a pattern where they always choose the worst possible hit piece title when it goes anything in relation to that company. When others do similar things they tend to be much more neutral. But such is the way of modern digital media - do you think "Google creates a new Privacy Sandbox feature for Android" would bring the same type of clicks, comments and adv…
Anti-Google is what gets the pageviews. Ars has been sliding toward clickbait for a long time now.
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#8I don't know why the Ars Google guy is so hostile toward the company but good grief! Every other outlet "google releasing their version of Apple's ATT" Ars Technica guy "Google will watch you while you sleep"
Can it do the thing that ATT does where I can globally or on a per app basis say do not track and have it honored under threat of getting the banhammer from the Play Store?
Because I really don’t care about advertisers having a new cool way to track me, I care that I can force them off by policy and the sandbox seems to not have that feature.
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#9There is an off switch.
That's all I need to know personally.
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#10I don't really get the point of the article. You can opt out of the privacy sandbox and block interests you don't want apps to see. The biggest change seems to be that chrome cand feed data into this system through an Android API, but doesn't this already happen through telemetry, analytics scripts and fingerprinting? You can also just not use chrome.