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Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome (arstechnica.com)

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

This is the thing about Chrome and the whole Chromium based ecosystem. Why on earth would anyone use a browser from an Ad company.

By the way. They are planning on putting it in Android apps too. So there one gets little choice. A non-starter like Apple where you cannot even load your own apps and app stores or Android from an Ad company where you can with effort at least choose your own software and even image your own OS.