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Google Chrome now targets ads based on your browser history, here's how to turn that off (www.techspot.com)

submitted 1 year ago by stopthatgirl7@kbin.social to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Google is gradually introducing a new method for delivering targeted ads in Chrome that aims to bypass the controversy surrounding cookies by using browsing history instead. This...

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[–] parsonpigeon@feddit.uk -5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is this not better for me though? If I'm gonna have ads forced on me, they might as well be relevant.

[–] kilgore_trout@feddit.it 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hope you will enjoy a private company sharing everything about your life to the highest bidder. By the way, do you have curtains on your house's windows? Why is that?

[–] Nastybutler@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The only curtains in my house are in the bedrooms, and that's just to block out light so we can sleep. My house isn't visible to any roads or other houses though.

[–] LinusWorks4Mo@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

now compare that to Chrome, which basically puts your house in the middle of a city full of leeches and scammers but no way to close the curtains