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Re:How to Turn Off Google's "Privacy Sandbox" Ad Tracking–an... by agwa on Thursday December 21, 2023 @08:28PM (#38729766)
Correct, with the caveat that if you have Chrome profile sync enabled (without a sync passphrase set) then the advertising data tracked by Chrome likely gets uploaded unencrypted to Google-operated servers. I don't know if their privacy policy permits them to look at this data, or if they would look at it in practice.
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Re:How to Turn Off Google's "Privacy Sandbox" Ad Tracking–an... by insanitybit on Thursday December 21, 2023 @08:33PM (#38729803)
Hm. All of my sync data is encrypted. Is that not the default?
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Re:How to Turn Off Google's "Privacy Sandbox" Ad Tracking–an... by agwa on Thursday December 21, 2023 @08:41PM (#38729862)
Nope. See the following page for some screenshots of the UI to turn on encryption with sync passphrases: https://palant.info/2023/08/29/chrome-sync-privacy-is-still-...
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Re:How to Turn Off Google's "Privacy Sandbox" Ad Tracking–an... by insanitybit on Thursday December 21, 2023 @08:45PM (#38729897)
Thanks. I hope they enable that by default at some point.
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