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

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So google has done what we expected they'd do.

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Time to stop using Chrome (arstechnica.com)
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Google is now rolling out a system where Chrome directly tracks your activity and shares its summary with advertisers.

Also Firefox is faster as of like two months ago.

It takes five minutes to switch browsers, and the difference is so little that you'll often forget you did it.

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Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome::Chrome now directly tracks users, generates a "topic" list it shares with advertisers.

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Chrome now ships with a user-tracking ad platform baked in (arstechnica.com)
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Google's browser not only got new chrome, it now also uses keeps track of all websites you visit to generate a topic list for ads that is shared with websites directly. Nobody asked for that.

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