placatedmayhem@lemmy.mltoTechnology@lemmy.ml•Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into ChromeEnglish
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1 year agoNo. There are a whole bag of tactics to get you to enable it like “Whoops, got re-enabled in an update. Our bad.”, which has happened before, or a myriad of dark patterns. By changing the name of this at least twice now when it got backlash from users, Google has shown it doesn’t care about Chrome users’ preferences, only that it wants this to fly under the radar so that every Chrome user won’t know to disable it.
Change to a browser that actually gives a crap about your privacy. As a bonus, changing helps reduce Google’s ability to dictate what happens to the web via Chrome’s huge user base, like the recent “Web Environment Integrity” push.
Twitter already broke their internet search results just a couple of months ago:
https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/3/23783153/google-twitter-tweets-changes-rate-limits
That’s believed to be why they reversed on the “must log in to read” and rate limiting policies.