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Google's iOS app now injects advertisements for Google Search on third-party websites (discuss.privacyguides.net)

submitted 3 months ago by cm0002 to c/privacy

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[–] Cris_Color 13 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Eww.....

You'd think they wouldn't try this given the western world's governments all deciding they engage in monopolistic, anti competitive behaviour. But obviously they don't care.

Kinda have to wonder if that has something to do with a certain recent election 🤷‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Adware doing adware things.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Wow that's malware.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

why do they need to advertise google search? We all know about it at this point

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Apple + Google is not the digital way

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Wow. Just over two years ago, this was only a security issue. Now Google is actively exploiting it to make it a privacy issue too. (Okay, Google could have been quietly exploiting it this whole time.)

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