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Google wants you to agree to a program to reduce web tracking by just letting Google have all your browsing data directly
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this post was submitted on 24 Aug 2023
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When I worked in agencies you could pick the suits that had lost touch with reality by how much they seemed to believe that targeted ads are useful enough to be some kind of public service. Now google use the same rhetoric to justify user tracking
on the engineering side, I keep having to turn down executive feature requests with “this is functionally indistinguishable from malware”