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Google is paving the way to serve you ads based directly on your browsing history, instead of cookies.

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[–] Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Here is what you need to know:

Stop using chrome.

[–] LineNoise@kbin.social 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Stop using Google services and products in general ideally. They've become a fundamental threat to a functional web.

[–] Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

One step at a time.

[–] wandermind@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

The only Google feature I haven't found a passable alternative for is location history.

[–] Jaysyn@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You can download ungoogled chromium builds here, but using Firefox is much smarter.

[–] bedrooms@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Wasn't it also baked in Chromium? I thought there was a derived browser that disabled this feature in Chromium.

[–] ForestOrca@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I had a firefox extension that randomly surfed around the web, making a complete pile of unrelated garbage out of one's browsing history, for circumstances like this.

[–] Senex@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I remember that! It clicked every single link on every website you used to muddy up your personal data.

[–] ForestOrca@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

I would run it when I was AFK, cuz it was so annoying to see all the trash created. And stopped using it pretty quickly.

[–] Amir@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

As far as I can see you can easily disable this in the settings? Or am I missing something?

[–] kratoz29@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago
[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

The only thing you're missing is that there's no guarantee that the setting does anything

[–] yoz@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago

Hope this adware exploits the fuck outta chrome fanbois ❤️