Chrome now directly tracks users, generates a "topic" list it shares with advertisers.

If you can, use Firefox.

  • @mellowheat@suppo.fiEnglish
    -14•1 year ago

    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 BrainfartsEnglish
      23•1 year ago

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

        • @Trainguyrom@reddthat.comEnglish
          2•1 year 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)