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Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome (arstechnica.com)

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[-] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 37 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] squid_slime@lemmy.world 16 points 4 months ago

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

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