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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 (1 children)

It's absolutely insane that this is legal. This type of spying is explicitly forbidden in the constitution of the United States of America, but since it's a private corporation it's suddenly okay? The FBI has been known to purchase information about consumers from private corporations. This is a back door around the 4th amendment. Actually since corporations are essentially governing by proxy, buying laws and legislatures, this is a constitutional violation.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Incremental changes have muffled the impact to most consumers sadly and as long as that works they'll keep doing it.