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Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome (arstechnica.com)
submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[โ€“] [email protected] 37 points 9 months ago (1 children)

This also further consolidates Google's advertising power. Block all their competitors from gathering the information and give them a neutered "topics list". Google still maintains every ability to allow their own products and ad platform to bypass and use the full information.

[โ€“] squid_slime 16 points 9 months ago

They are an ad company first. But yep now google will be the main advertiser in town