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Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome (arstechnica.com)
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[–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

I know what the Topics API does. I'm asking for a concrete example of exactly how it's going to make my internet experience worse. (That Register article doesn't provide one.)

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Losing privacy makes your internet experience worse. That seems pretty clear to me, but if you don't care about corporations being better suited to target ads to you, then I don't think anyone would be able to convince you that these changes are bad.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    I'd love to debate this with you properly but I've got COVID right now and don't have the energy to put together a decent response, sorry. Basically I just don't see how the specific features in the new Chrome build let advertisers do anything they can't already do. I don't see how they contribute to ads getting worse, or where "nickel and diming" comes into it.

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