Our Orwellian tech reality: “Enhanced ad privacy” is Google-speak for “more ways to spy on you serve you targeted ads.” More at The Register: Google Chrome pushes ahead with targeted ads based on your browser history and at Ars Technica: Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome.
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Good Luck with the Extortion, YouTube
YouTube is testing a “three strikes” policy to somehow block people from watching videos when they’re using an ad blocker. I wish them good luck with using another Silicon Mobster* tactic — this time, to extort users into signing up for YouTube Premium.
Scanned & Flagged & Deleted
Ironic how everyone was crying out loud when Apple merely announced that they would scan photos stored in iCloud for child abuse — when Google has been employing such technology for a much longer time already.
Do The Internet a Favor: Switch to Firefox
Yesterday, I saw with some astonishment that Microsoft’s Chromium-based browser “Edge” has surpassed Safari in popularity, and is now in the 2nd place in desktop browser market share.
Google’s Chrome Bait & Switch
Now that Google dominates the browser market with Chrome (in other words: enough people have taken the bait), it is time for Google to flip the switch and make even more money: Google Just Gave 2 Billion Chrome Users A Reason To Switch To Firefox This comment by one of the developers of uBlock Origin …
Can anybody do this please?
The “EU cookie law” makes ACCEPTING cookies (and thus, spying/tracking) more attractive. Why?
Junk
The never-ending dump of junk mail – Mondays are the worst. One piece of legitimate mail, the rest goes directly into the bin. What a waste. Well, it keeps the USPS alive they say (and that article is from 2011 – the numbers probably haven’t improved).