I know I appear to be in the minority here, but I trust google to categorize and share my "interests" more than I do random websites (plus, I use enough Google products that they have that info anyway), and I prefer targeted ads to totally irrelevant ones (like the garbage ads on twitter). I'll be leaving this on, since it doesn't have any tangible negative impact.
How to turn off Google's "privacy sandbox" ad tracking, and why you should
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Re: How to turn off Google's "privacy sandbox" ad tracking, and why you should
#12If you care at all about privacy and the future of a free Internet, this really should be that watershed moment that makes you take your head out of the sand.
Seriously. Uninstall Chrome today and switch to something else. It’s only if enough people do it that they lose their grip and influence.
Re: How to turn off Google's "privacy sandbox" ad tracking, and why you should
#13I'm still hoping there will exist an extension to poison it with random categories and random measurement.
Re: How to turn off Google's "privacy sandbox" ad tracking, and why you should
#14The idea is that instead of the dozens of third-party cookies placed on websites by different advertisers and tracking companies, Google itself will track your interests in the browser itself, controlling even more of the advertising ecosystem than it already does. Google calls this “enhanced ad privacy,” perhaps leaning into the idea that starting in 2024 they plan to “phase out” the third-party cookies that many ad…
I get why Chrome has to prioritize the things it does, but this kind of reasoning feels so backwards to me.
I'm sorry that blocking cross-site tracking makes it harder for ad companies to make money, but that's just not my concern. My browser is supposed to act in _my_ interests. It's the _user_ agent, after all. I'm not going to give any sympathy to the company that built the internet into the ad-supported hellscape that it is when they now use their browser monopoly to try to protect their business model.
Re: How to turn off Google's "privacy sandbox" ad tracking, and why you should
#15I'm still hoping there will exist an extension to poison it with random categories and random measurement.
There already is a 5% chance that you will send a random category to a site for an epoch.
Re: How to turn off Google's "privacy sandbox" ad tracking, and why you should
#16If you care at all about privacy and the future of a free Internet, this really should be that watershed moment that makes you take your head out of the sand. Seriously. Uninstall Chrome today and switch to something else. It’s only if enough people do it that they lose their grip and influence.
What does a "free" internet look like without ads? Serious question, because right now ads pay for a lot. Ads are why we have reddit and twitter - two sites that I think a lot of people like.
Ads are why I could run a wordpress blog as a young student.
If you assume "the current internet is good, but we want to improve privacy" what Google is doing makes sense. Advertisers can still say "ok that person likes cars I'll show them cars" but they can't actually track that person or attribute information to them other than "likes cars".
Re: How to turn off Google's "privacy sandbox" ad tracking, and why you should
#17If you care at all about privacy and the future of a free Internet, this really should be that watershed moment that makes you take your head out of the sand. Seriously. Uninstall Chrome today and switch to something else. It’s only if enough people do it that they lose their grip and influence.
this.
I went as far as uninstalling chrome ~1 year ago on my daily driver personal desktop.
I use firefox as much as possible at work, but it is "not supported" by our IT department.
Confluence doesn't even work properly with firefox, its insane. Try pasting a photo you copied into your clipboard (by selecting the file) into confluence and it wont work.
Re: How to turn off Google's "privacy sandbox" ad tracking, and why you should
#18Re: How to turn off Google's "privacy sandbox" ad tracking, and why you should
#19Google referring to any of this as “privacy” is deceiving. It's pure doublespeak. Privacy is surveillance.
It is better for privacy than third party cookies which they are getting rid of.
So get rid of third-party cookies and also don't add this abomination as a replacement.
(Obvious response: "there are legal reasons why we can't do that, it'd be viewed as anticompetitive". Obvious response to the obvious response: "stop being simultaneously an ad company and a browser vendor and it would no longer be anticompetitive".)
Re: How to turn off Google's "privacy sandbox" ad tracking, and why you should
#20If you care at all about privacy and the future of a free Internet, this really should be that watershed moment that makes you take your head out of the sand. Seriously. Uninstall Chrome today and switch to something else. It’s only if enough people do it that they lose their grip and influence.
What does a "free" internet look like without ads? Serious question, because right now ads pay for a lot. Ads are why we have reddit and twitter - two sites that I think a lot of people like. Ads are why I could run a wordpress blog as a young student. If you assume "the current internet is good, but we want to improve privacy" what Google is doing makes sense. Advertisers can still say "ok that person likes cars I'l…
They're not talking about free as in no monetary cost, they're talking about free as in freedom. Google has enough market share that they can just make their own standards and everyone else just follows. I have repeatedly come across sites that don't even test on Firefox because Chrome is just the default now.
If you don't want to be cornered into a single option that invades your privacy, now is the time to pay attention.