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Google Chrome just rolled out a new way to track you and serve ads

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Re: Google Chrome just rolled out a new way to track you and serve ads

#51

> 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

Let's have an advertising company also have a monopoly on the web browser. What could possibly go wrong?

Re: Google Chrome just rolled out a new way to track you and serve ads

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post #39

> 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.

This is where I stopped reading as well. This would be a much better article for this thread: https://movementforanopenweb.com/googles-privacy-sandbox-a-c...

Re: Google Chrome just rolled out a new way to track you and serve ads

#53
post #39

> 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.

I quit at what is a cookie. It's 2020 or so, my dead grandparents knew what a cookie is and it's time to go to work anyway.

Re: Google Chrome just rolled out a new way to track you and serve ads

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post #34
post #14

https://getfirefox.com

using firefox on android, macos and linux and very happy with it will happily pay any eventual battery price on the laptop

Same here - quick, much more customizable, with good-quality extensions, great ad-blocking... Haven't looked back in years.

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.

Re: Google Chrome just rolled out a new way to track you and serve ads

#56
post #36

Can 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…

Other browsers have shown this is a false dichotomy. You can disable third party cookies + surveillance AND not have this data still harvested by your browser.

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!

Re: Google Chrome just rolled out a new way to track you and serve ads

#57
Just for a little and silly laugh

https://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
post #39

> 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.

On the bright side, if something's gonna get your aunt to care about online privacy, it will be creepy and disgusting behaviour like an online advertiser based on the other side of the world keeping track of your mouth hygiene for your own convenience

Re: Google Chrome just rolled out a new way to track you and serve ads

#59
post #18

Does anyone know the MDM settings to disable it for everyone in our org? I could not find here: https://chromeenterprise.google/policies/#

These are the settings you're looking for:

* PrivacySandboxAdMeasurementEnabled

* PrivacySandboxAdTopicsEnabled

* PrivacySandboxPromptEnabled

* PrivacySandboxSiteEnabledAdsEnabled

Re: Google Chrome just rolled out a new way to track you and serve ads

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post #49
post #26

I uninstalled chrome & switched to Brave (I know about core) when I couldn't disable chrome auto update. I have firefox too.

I used Brave for awhile, but it got too crypto which made it feel scammy.

At least the crypto ads are really easy to turn off.
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