floofloof@lemmy.ca to Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year agoGoogle gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chromearstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square87fedilinkarrow-up1421arrow-down110cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.worldtechnology@midwest.socialtechnology@lemmy.worldandroid@kbin.socialtechnology@lemmy.worldtechnology@beehaw.org
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minus-squareMwalimu@baraza.africalinkfedilinkarrow-up11·1 year ago The Federated Learning of Cohorts and now the Topics API are part of a plan to pitch an “alternative” tracking platform, and Google argues that there has to be a tracking alternative—you can’t just not be spied on.