How to Turn Off Google's "Privacy Sandbox" Ad Tracking–and Why You Should

Re:How to Turn Off Google's "Privacy Sandbox" Ad Tracking–an... by lolinder on Thursday December 21, 2023 @10:15PM (#38730553)

> If tomorrow Google turns next-level evil in terms of privacy / steering the web

My fear isn't that tomorrow Google will start doing the browser-monopoly equivalent of kicking puppies and twirling a black mustache.

My fear is that Google has gradually accustomed everyone to their monopolistic dominance over the web, to the point where they can engage in blatant monopolistic privacy-destroying activities like privacy sandbox and people will still rush to their defense saying "but they haven't broken out the mustache twirling yet!"

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Re:How to Turn Off Google's "Privacy Sandbox" Ad Tracking–an... by jorvi on Thursday December 21, 2023 @11:19PM (#38730896)

I’m not defending Google. I completely excised them from my life almost a decade ago already.

I’m simply freeing people from the illusion that Google has “won the web” or whatever. Google is effectively giving everyone a free ride with Chromium. They aren’t forcing anyone onto Chrome (where the real tracking happens), and if they did by making Chromium private from now on, again, forks and upstream swaps would happen at lightspeed.

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