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Google Chrome warns uBlock Origin may soon be disabled (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Not necessarily. They still get money from selling user data. So they likely still care about losing users who use adblocking to at least some degree.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Google doesn't sell user data, they sell user eyeballs. There's no incentive for Google to sell user data since they're an ad company and the only people who would buy the data are competitors.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Maybe you're right, I don't have any certainty in this. But I don't buy google's word on this for a second.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/11/tech/google-ai-lawsuit/index.html

https://www.tampabay.com/news/2021/05/07/google-selling-users-personal-data-despite-promise-federal-court-lawsuit-claims/

https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/05/07/google-selling-users-personal-data-despite-promise-federal-court-lawsuit-claims/

Corpos like to lie, and their promises to not sell data is worthless. Even if they're not outright selling data directly, or "anonymizing it" before selling it, at a bare minimum they're still abusing the hoard of data they have to make a buck. They want that data and get large amounts of it through people's broswers, even with adblockers installed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Your first link talks about Google consuming data for its AI

Your next two links (which are talking about the same thing) talks about how other companies are abusing Google's adbid system to try and collect correlated data against their own.

Love it or hate it, Google has been pretty transparent that they use your data for advertising, but nothing there talks about Google selling your data to third parties.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Good point, but also it's not that they will lose all of the user data they sell if people switch off Chrome, just the parts that chrome collects.

If they were blocking ublock users from accessing any google products then it would be purely a 'we only care about ad revenue'

It would be very interesting to see the internal data they use to make these decisions, but also knowing tech these decisions were probably made by a series of mid level managers sufficiently sucking the air out of the room until a critical mass was hit to make this happen

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

They absolutely also get data through means other than their browser. But they data they get off of the browser directly is probably a shit load.

but also knowing tech these decisions were probably made by a series of mid level managers sufficiently sucking the air out of the room until a critical mass was hit to make this happen

1000%

I'm sure a bunch of bean counters were involved as well.