> Tracking technology can arguably benefit us as well. For example, it could be helpful if an online store reminds you every three months you need a new toothbrush, or that this time last year you bought a birthday card for your mum. fuck off
Google Chrome just rolled out a new way to track you and serve ads
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#52> Tracking technology can arguably benefit us as well. For example, it could be helpful if an online store reminds you every three months you need a new toothbrush, or that this time last year you bought a birthday card for your mum. fuck off
It's against the guidelines to be dismissive, but there really is no other response. Especially when you left read the follow-up sentence: > Offloading cognitive effort, such as reminders like these, is a great way automation can assist humanity. Does that pass for journalism? I really don't want to read the rest of the article.
Re: Google Chrome just rolled out a new way to track you and serve ads
#53> Tracking technology can arguably benefit us as well. For example, it could be helpful if an online store reminds you every three months you need a new toothbrush, or that this time last year you bought a birthday card for your mum. fuck off
It's against the guidelines to be dismissive, but there really is no other response. Especially when you left read the follow-up sentence: > Offloading cognitive effort, such as reminders like these, is a great way automation can assist humanity. Does that pass for journalism? I really don't want to read the rest of the article.
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#54https://getfirefox.com
using firefox on android, macos and linux and very happy with it will happily pay any eventual battery price on the laptop
On Android, they also do things right (ok, subjectively) and keep the address/navigation bar on the bottom, so I don't have to stretch to reach the most-commonly used UI elements.
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#56Can anyone explain to me why this is worse than third-party cookies? *If* this lets chrome remove third-party cookies, doesn't it effectively increase your privacy by putting that tracking data on the user's machine instead of having random third-parties involved in every page load to harvest that tracking info? I understand that you can currently turn off third-party cookies, but a bunch of the internet breaks if yo…
Is this better than third-party cookies? Yes, probably. Does Firefox and Safari go better without surveilling your browsing history to serve you ads? Also yes!
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#57https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@aeva/111027233991200762
"ars technica: we don't know how they did it but google chrome now extracts a pint of blood every time you log on
chrome user, dizzy from blood loss: I swear to god I am like this close to switching to firefox
another chrome user, on the verge of fainting from severe blood loss: no need to resort to that, just switch to [insert today's trendy chrome fork here] and be smart like meeee"
Re: Google Chrome just rolled out a new way to track you and serve ads
#58> Tracking technology can arguably benefit us as well. For example, it could be helpful if an online store reminds you every three months you need a new toothbrush, or that this time last year you bought a birthday card for your mum. fuck off
It's against the guidelines to be dismissive, but there really is no other response. Especially when you left read the follow-up sentence: > Offloading cognitive effort, such as reminders like these, is a great way automation can assist humanity. Does that pass for journalism? I really don't want to read the rest of the article.
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#59Does anyone know the MDM settings to disable it for everyone in our org? I could not find here: https://chromeenterprise.google/policies/#
* PrivacySandboxAdMeasurementEnabled
* PrivacySandboxAdTopicsEnabled
* PrivacySandboxPromptEnabled
* PrivacySandboxSiteEnabledAdsEnabled