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teft to Technology@beehaw.org • 2 years ago

Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome

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Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome

arstechnica.com

teft to Technology@beehaw.org • 2 years ago
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Chrome now directly tracks users, generates a "topic" list it shares with advertisers.
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  • @NaoPb@beehaw.org
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    My advice would be the latter. That case you can always use the same browser, no matter what OS you decide to use in the future.

    • sparky@lemmy.federate.cc
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      Fair, although I personally use Safari on macOS/iOS and Firefox on Windows/Linux. If you’re interested, it’s fairly easy to sync between them with https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/icloud-bookmarks/.

      • @NaoPb@beehaw.org
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        Interesting. I did not know that.

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