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Google Is Testing Its Controversial New Ad Targeting Tech in Millions (www.eff.org)

submitted 3 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hopefully nobody here is still using chrome on personal machines, but good to know

Google’s launch of this trial—without notice to the individuals who will be part of the test, much less their consent—is a concrete breach of user trust in service of a technology that should not exist.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 years ago

I mean, Mozilla did actually experiment with a similar concept, but theirs was full-on private: All possible ads got downloaded, then it was decided locally which ad to show based on the browser history.

Admittedly, that doesn't scale very well...