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0 pointsGeekyBear2y ago0 comments

Nobody believes anything Meta or Google have to say about privacy.

Google is currently trying to sell additional ways to spy on users built into the newest version of Chrome as a "privacy sandbox".

> all of Google's documentation about this feature feels like it was written on opposite day, with Google calling the browser-based advertising platform "a significant step on the path towards a fundamentally more private web."

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/09/googles-widely-oppos...

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carimura2y ago

Correction: "Nobody who regularly reads Hacker News believes anything Meta or Google have to say about privacy."

edgyquant2y ago

Who brought google up? They aren’t relevant to the discussion.

doublerabbit2y ago

How are they not relevant. They suck data from you for money.

Exactly what Twitter, Microsoft and Amazon do too.

GeekyBearOP2y ago

When Google started bragging to it's advertising customers that it now buys a copy of everyone's credit/debit card transaction data, that was my personal bridge too far.

> as Google said in a blog post on its new service for marketers, it has partnered with “third parties” that give them access to 70 percent of all credit and debit card purchases.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2017/05/25/242717/google-no...

soperj2y ago

And Apple now with their ad business. How are they fundamentally different?

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