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...
  • necrobius@lemm.ee
    231·
    1 year ago

    If you don’t want Google to see what you’re doing then don’t use Google products

    • JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world
      8·
      1 year ago

      To do that literally is actually quite hard if not impossible for most people. A deGoogled mobile device that is functional - that is a quite a technical challenge.

      However, ditching Chrome is obviously low-hanging fruit. Drives me crazy that so many people can’t see the obvious problem of having a web where the client and the server belong to the same company.

      • necrobius@lemm.ee
        1·
        1 year ago

        For most people looking for a phone, it’s the choice of which company you want to give your data too. But there are very obvious options when it comes to browsers.