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Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome (arstechnica.com)

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[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Opera was bought by a Chinese data analytics company, and once that happened, they scrapped their engine and used chromium to save money.

They have questionable CCP ties too.

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[–] Sentau@lemmy.one 21 points 2 years ago*

Maybe use that information to try and influence the public in the same way that cambridge analytica did for the 2016 elections.

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[–] punkisundead@slrpnk.net 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Someone having that data is a problem in itself

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[–] stevehobbes@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

lol. This thread is about people mad that google is doing it, and you’re saying so what if a nation state does it?

The answer is the same either way - to either sell the data to a party who want to manipulate you into doing or thinking what they want or by directly manipulating you into doing or thinking what they want.

Same with Reddit and lemmy. It doesn’t take a whole lot of investment (on a state level actor basis) to manipulate small and large communities or individuals into thinking something is normal or mainstream. Or convincing them that everyone loves this product or it’s so popular or whatever.

The CCP censors their entire internet for their people and collects all sorts of information to root out dissidents. What good thing do you think is going to come from them having that data?

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