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Google Chrome warns uBlock Origin may soon be disabled (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
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[–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years 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.

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