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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€“] elbarto777 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Targeted ads.

I agree with everything you said except for the targeted ads part. It would be wildly hypocritical of them to do this.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Very fair point. My bad, I expressed myself poorly. What I meant with 'targeted ads' was to show ads not on the browser itself but to people who might be more easily convinced to use Firefox. For example, there's a huge amount of viewers on YouTube that are tech-oriented. Nobody is stopping Firefox from sponsoring creators, videos or even collaborating with them.