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Re:The DOJ Still Wants Google to Sell Off Chrome by scarface_74 on Sunday March 09, 2025 @12:02PM (#43310365)
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.

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Re:The DOJ Still Wants Google to Sell Off Chrome by geor9e on Sunday March 09, 2025 @12:23PM (#43310618)
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.

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Re:The DOJ Still Wants Google to Sell Off Chrome by scarface_74 on Sunday March 09, 2025 @12:54PM (#43310987)
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.

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