HeartyBeast@kbin.social to Technology@kbin.social · 10 months agoGoogle Chrome just rolled out a new way to track you and serve ads. Here's what you need to knowtheconversation.comexternal-linkmessage-square13fedilinkarrow-up160file-textcross-posted to: hackernews@lemmy.smeargle.fanstechnews@radiation.partyhackernews@derp.foo
arrow-up160external-linkGoogle Chrome just rolled out a new way to track you and serve ads. Here's what you need to knowtheconversation.comHeartyBeast@kbin.social to Technology@kbin.social · 10 months agomessage-square13fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: hackernews@lemmy.smeargle.fanstechnews@radiation.partyhackernews@derp.foo
Google is paving the way to serve you ads based directly on your browsing history, instead of cookies.
minus-squareForestOrca@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up6·10 months agoI had a firefox extension that randomly surfed around the web, making a complete pile of unrelated garbage out of one’s browsing history, for circumstances like this.
minus-squareSenexlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·10 months agoI remember that! It clicked every single link on every website you used to muddy up your personal data.
minus-squareForestOrca@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up3·10 months agoI would run it when I was AFK, cuz it was so annoying to see all the trash created. And stopped using it pretty quickly.
I had a firefox extension that randomly surfed around the web, making a complete pile of unrelated garbage out of one’s browsing history, for circumstances like this.
I remember that! It clicked every single link on every website you used to muddy up your personal data.
I would run it when I was AFK, cuz it was so annoying to see all the trash created. And stopped using it pretty quickly.