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Re:New browser signal could make cookie banners obsolete by exporectomy on Wednesday June 16, 2021 @02:36PM (#27531900)
Then Google came along promising no intrusive banner ads or popups. They would make their money from quieter personalized ads that knew what you wanted because they had more data about what you were doing. People loved the idea. It was going to save the internet from the horrible advertising industry.
Re:New browser signal could make cookie banners obsolete by jraph on Wednesday June 16, 2021 @03:05PM (#27532215)
Actually, I seem to remember that these ads were contextual at first, not related to any profile they would have built for you but only related to the content of the page.

Which is entirely different. Ads are still manipulative (by design), but at least purely contextual ads don't track you.

Re:New browser signal could make cookie banners obsolete by exporectomy on Friday June 18, 2021 @12:10AM (#27547265)
Oh that's right. With gmail, people assumed they would be based on your email contents but sure if Google actually ever did that.
Re:New browser signal could make cookie banners obsolete by jraph on Friday June 18, 2021 @12:03PM (#27551771)
They did. They actually stopped not long ago (2017): https://variety.com/2017/digital/news/google-gmail-ads-email...