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Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome (arstechnica.com)

submitted 9 months ago by rimu@piefed.social to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[+] mellowheat@suppo.fi -14 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Seems like a quick hop to chrome://flags allows one to disable this. chrome://flags/#privacy-sandbox-ads-apis

Ads aren't evil though. They are the main method of making people know about new things. Intrusive and privacy-defeating tracking is.

[–] miss_brainfarts@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 9 months ago (1 children)

And nowadays, most online ads are intrusive and privacy-defeating tracking, so you know

[–] mellowheat@suppo.fi -5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Yes, absolutely. As far as I can tell, Privacy Sandbox could help with that.

[–] AnAngryAlpaca@feddit.de 4 points 9 months ago

You know what really helps for privacy? Adblockers.

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 2 points 9 months ago

The big problem with Privacy Sandbox is who is implementing it. I was on the fence about it for similar reasons until I saw who came out against it. Mozilla, the EFF, etc. all heavily condemned it, so I knew it was safe to say its bad (limited time, unlimited desire for knowledge and all I did not have the time to do a deep dive on Google's newest way to get people okay with invasive tracking)