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technology • 4 years ago

Google Is Testing Its Controversial New Ad Targeting Tech in Millions of Chrome Browsers - Ditch it and use the open source Firefox browser.

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Google Is Testing Its Controversial New Ad Targeting Tech in Millions of Chrome Browsers - Ditch it and use the open source Firefox browser.

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technology • 4 years ago

Google Is Testing Its Controversial New Ad Targeting Tech in Millions

Today, Google launched an “origin trial” of Federated Learning of Cohorts (aka FLoC), its experimental new technology for targeting ads. A switch has silently been flipped in millions of instances of

The discussion on r/privacytoolsIO .

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4 years ago
@Kanna You can easily export your bookmarks and data to Firefox.

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  4 years ago
  I appreciate the heads up :)
  
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- grisbajskulor [he/him]
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  4 years ago
  Passwords? I assume no. This + my boundless laziness made me switch back to Chrome after trying FireFox.
  
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      Thank you!!
      
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