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What's going on with major changes to privacy on Chrome? (self.outoftheloop)

submitted 1 year ago by BackOnMyBS to c/outoftheloop

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What changes are they making, and how to prevent them affecting users?

Also, does Privacy Badger, uBlock Origin, or a VPN with ad-blocking and anti-tracking prevent the new data collection through Chrome?

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

enables websites to use Google’s new “Topics API” to view web addresses in your browser history

That's just false. It generates generic topics from domain names in the history and provides some of those topics to advertisers. Nobody gets to know which domains you've visited. It also has measures to make it hard to build a profile on you based on the provided topics.

Any kind of tracking is bad. You don't have to misrepresent what kind of tracking it is