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Re:Apple's claim is that it bans other browsers for security by AlexandrB on Monday June 27, 2022 @12:45PM (#31897179)
The other drawback is that Google is an advertising company that has an incentive to track users across the web. In a Chrome monopoly how easy would it be to avoid being tracked? Especially by Google. Recently, Chrome was the only major browser to adopt Google's FLoC[1]. If Chrome was even more dominant would it have mattered if Edge/Safari/Firefox didn't adopt this tracking technology?

[1] https://www.howtogeek.com/724441/what-is-googles-floc-and-ho...

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Re:Apple's claim is that it bans other browsers for security by IX-103 on Monday June 27, 2022 @02:13PM (#31898426)
Google is an advertising company, but that's not the main reason for their privacy sandbox and it's ad-friendly features. Google needs the open web to survive as a search provider. If everything turns into a paywall or cookie/privacy wall then Google can't index that content. They already can't see the content on Facebook and Twitter.

Google makes most of their money from search ads -- I've heard upwards of 80% -- and search ads supposedly don't even use targeting information.

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