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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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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

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4 years ago
I actually use DuckDuckGo myself because it doesn't record anything. not even the ip address. What browser do you use?

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  4 years ago
  Firefox because chrome eats RAM
  
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