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Re:How to Turn Off Google's "Privacy Sandbox" Ad Tracking–an... by Moru on Thursday December 21, 2023 @08:20PM (#38729697)
It's also not legal in GDPR lands. It has to be easy to understand, the default have to be to opt out, and you are not allowed to block usage for people that opted out. Oh, and the message has to be short. I have seen "a sentence or two" mentioned as suggestion.
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Re:How to Turn Off Google's "Privacy Sandbox" Ad Tracking–an... by madeofpalk on Thursday December 21, 2023 @08:36PM (#38729820)
Within Europe you get a different dialog box that has more explicit buttons, removing any sort of plausible deniability for Google here.

Looks like this https://blog.incogni.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/enhanced...

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Re:How to Turn Off Google's "Privacy Sandbox" Ad Tracking–an... by resoluteteeth on Thursday December 21, 2023 @08:46PM (#38729906)
Fascinating. This really proves that Google knows that the version it's using elsewhere is a dark pattern.
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Re:How to Turn Off Google's "Privacy Sandbox" Ad Tracking–an... by Moru on Friday December 22, 2023 @03:23AM (#38732154)
Ofcourse they do, they all do. And they´re not even very secretive about it.

Not the first time and not the last time they treat US customers differently because of this.

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Re:How to Turn Off Google's "Privacy Sandbox" Ad Tracking–an... by cebert on Thursday December 21, 2023 @08:32PM (#38729792)
I think we almost always need to assume that dialogs like this are user hostile. The action your brian immediately wants to take is likely not the right action to take.
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