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A comment on Chrome deploys deep-linking in latest build despite privacy concerns. Parent comment
1) Privacy-conscious browsers are trying to get exposure, so they are stretching an extremely narrow privacy risk into something extreme.
2) (I also believe) media companies are worried this will rob them of ad exposures, so they are incentivized to cover this as something scary.
3) The "bad guy" is Google. This means the amplitude of the story is immediately 10X larger.
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1) Privacy-conscious browsers are trying to get exposure, so they are stretching an extremely narrow privacy risk into something extreme.
2) (I also believe) media companies are worried this will rob them of ad exposures, so they are incentivized to cover this as something scary.
3) The "bad guy" is Google. This means the amplitude of the story is immediately 10X larger.