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Leo ( leo@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show ) M to Linux and Tech News@lemmy.linuxuserspace.showEnglish · 3 years ago

How To Turn Off Google’s “Privacy Sandbox” Ad Tracking—and Why You Should

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How To Turn Off Google’s “Privacy Sandbox” Ad Tracking—and Why You Should

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Leo ( leo@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show ) M to Linux and Tech News@lemmy.linuxuserspace.showEnglish · 3 years ago
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Google has rolled out "Privacy Sandbox," a Chrome feature first announced back in 2019 that, among other things, exchanges third-party cookies—the most common form of tracking technology—for what the company is now calling "Topics." Topics is a response to pushback against Google’s proposed...
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    I turned it off by going back to Firefox…many years ago.

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      It does make one wonder whether sites will eventually require this tech to be on.

      But I suppose some clever extension dev will make something that just lies about the topics you’re interested in.

      I’m betting on Gorhill.

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