As a Firefox user: Oh no, anyway
How do you know if someone uses Firefox?
Don’t worry, they’ll tell you
How do you know if someone uses chrome?
You can find their SSN and credit card number on the dank web in a list of 1k profiles for $1
The “dank web” is my jam!
Let me guess. You also do Crossfit and are a vegan?
The opposite actually.
You don’t work out at all and eat only meat?
Sell cows for stolen credit card numbers
Can you chill a little bit? Tf man…
I use firefox on arch, btw
Even though you got the downvotes it still made me laugh
Come on people lighten up a bit
Good thing I’m using Firefox.
We have enhanced your privacy, pray we don’t enhance it more.
Google’s new ad system is called Topics. If you want to understand how it works, I would like to point you to Security Now Ep 935 in which Steve Gibson gives a pretty thorough analysis.
Marcus’ take in the image is overly simplistic and a bit FUD. The intention is for Topics to replace current ad tracking systems such as tracking pixels and other metrics. In conjunction with implementing Topics, Google is removing third-party cookies from Chrome, which will eliminate most of the current invasive tracking tools.
I’m not really a Google fanboy and I’ll probably just stick with Firefox personally, but everything about Topics sounds less privacy invasive than the way things are done now. If Google can force this change on the internet advertising market it will actually be an improvement for user privacy.
So with Topics and the removal of 3rd party cookies Google can then have a monopoly on behavior based ad tracking since they also have 64% of the browsing market. This is also bad.
This is absolutely the big problem. Google already has a near monopoly on internet advertising, with Facebook/Meta being their only real competitor. If Google has full control over the interest tracking/targeting technology and it’s inescapable because it’s part of the browser engine then they are effectively the gatekeepers of all internet advertising. Meta could still operate as an advertising agency but wouldn’t be able to implement any of their own technology, they’d have to just use what Google allows them to.
Definitely bad, but is it worse than tracking pixels (which came out of Facebook Beacon)? From an end-user privacy sense, I think Topics might be better as it doesn’t keep track of your specific web activity, only general interest categories for the websites that you visit within a period of three weeks - and the record is kept locally in your browser, not on a corporate server.
I mean…yeah? Is anyone surprised or shocked when Paramount Pictures releases a new movie? It’s literally Google’s whole business idea, they sell your data.
Enhances their privacy, so you (user) would not know whats being sent out.
Because they know that wording it like:
“We use our monopoly advantage to push anti-consumer features nobody wants. Enable extra tracking for no reason? Yes/no”
I use Ungoogled-chromium. Chrome without google. Plain and simple.
Even more options and choices: https://chromium.woolyss.com/
Can’t see the image
It’s a twitter image that says,
“For anyone unaware, Google Chrome is currently rolling out an update that tracks your interests based on browsing history, then share them with 3rd party websites. The notification page makes it sound like they added a new privacy feature, but in actuality they automatically enrolled you into their tracking system and you have to go and manually opt out.”
There’s a screenshot of a pop up from Chrome that says, “Enhanced ad privacy in Chrome” with some marketing spin on how you get more choice on the types of ads you see.
thank you
