Re:The DOJ Still Wants Google to Sell Off Chrome
by geor9e on Sunday March 09, 2025 @11:37AM
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That's not Chrome's browsing history - that's an ad network, adsense, profiling you, via cookies/ip/digital fingerprinting, across every website that serves it's ads. It's like logging into facebook and saying they can see your browsing history - yes some of it, but it's because they're watching a server they own serve you requests.
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Re:The DOJ Still Wants Google to Sell Off Chrome
by scarface_74 on Sunday March 09, 2025 @12:02PM
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The entire idea behind “privacy sandbox” is to create a profile of you for advertising based on your browsing history and the profile is created by Chrome - without being logged in and without cookies.
https://privacysandbox.com/intl/en_us/
More specifically the Topics API
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Topics_API
It’s opposed by both Mozilla and Apple and is only supported by Google/Chrome.
Re:The DOJ Still Wants Google to Sell Off Chrome
by geor9e on Sunday March 09, 2025 @12:23PM
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Interesting. So the browser knows your browsing history like every browser does, but it uses it to share some distilled data. Yeah, I definitely don't want that. Looks like I already totally disabled it though, so I'm good I guess.
Privacy and security > Ad privacy
Ad topics: Generates a list of your interests based on your browsing behavior.
Site-suggested ads: Allows advertisers to retarget you based on your interactions.
Ad measurement: Enables advertisers to assess ad performance.
Toggle each of these settings to "Off" to disable them.
Re:The DOJ Still Wants Google to Sell Off Chrome
by scarface_74 on Sunday March 09, 2025 @12:54PM
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Yep.
And I slightly misspoke. I said it was only supported by Chrome. More accurately, it is supported by Chrome and some Chromium based browsers.