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Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome (arstechnica.com)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 29 points 2 years ago (2 children)

If everyone who said they were going to do this actually did this, Chrome wouldn't do this, if that makes sense.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Or, idk, regulators could like, do their jobs.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Unfortunately, if the government had one single source to secretly control/monitor the world wide web from then they would gladly stand back and do nothing.

    Having said that, I truly hope I'm wrong. And they are probably already doing what I described upstream from the browser anyways.

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