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Google Chrome pushes ahead with targeted ads based on your browser history (www.theregister.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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Google enables advertisers a look into your browsing history...

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[โ€“] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

No. Now Google straight up monopolizes your browser history instead of trying to guess your interests.

[โ€“] vapeloki 5 points 1 year ago

At least here in Germany it is opt in. As the algorithm runs locally, I don't see a big issue with this.

I didn't opt in to this feature to be clear, and ghostery should help for tracking.

But if I wouldn't have this option, I would be more willing to have my history evaluated locally, instead of having my history evaluated for 90% of the sides on some third party advertisers owned system.