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How To Turn Off Google’s “Privacy Sandbox” Ad Tracking—and Why You Should

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Google has rolled out "Privacy Sandbox," a Chrome feature first announced back in 2019 that, among other things, exchanges third-party cookies—the most common form of tracking technology—for what the company is now calling "Topics." Topics is a response to pushback against Google’s proposed...

How To Turn Off Google’s “Privacy Sandbox” Ad Tracking—and Why You Should

Google did it again.

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  • Let me guess ... every new update reverts Chrome back to default settings

    Chrome feels like it's updated every week

    • It's a browser. They have been getting weekly updates for like a decade now.

      • Updates generally don't require settings resets. It can happen if there's major changes but that's the exception, not the norm. If Chrome updates revert settings to default with any degree of regularity (I actually don't know if they do, I haven't really touched Chrome in ten? years) that's either gross incompetence or sheer malice.

        • Fair enough. I stopped using it ages ago, and was abhorred to find out chrome logs you in on the browser when you log in to Google at any point. Any browser that silently insists on knowing your identity as you browse the Web deserves zero trust.

          Thank firefox for containers.

      • Chrome updates itself about once every five - six days on my system

        Firefox updates once about every two weeks and often just once a month.

        Everytime I run a manual update, Chrome is always on the list.

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