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Unpacking Google’s new “dangerous” Web-Environment-Integrity specification (vivaldi.com)
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[–] dx1@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Read more about their actual budget.

[–] joe@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't understand your comment. Can you elaborate?

[–] dx1@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They run roughly a 50% profit margin, with ~80% of their budget coming from advertising revenue. Given that that's amounting to about 100B year over year, with the Orwellian scope of their, what word can I use, surveillance - I would call it excessive.