HeartyBeast to Technology@kbin.social • 10 months agoGoogle Chrome just rolled out a new way to track you and serve ads. Here's what you need to knowtheconversation.commessage-square13arrow-up158arrow-down10file-textcross-posted to: hackernews
arrow-up158arrow-down1external-linkGoogle Chrome just rolled out a new way to track you and serve ads. Here's what you need to knowtheconversation.comHeartyBeast to Technology@kbin.social • 10 months agomessage-square13file-textcross-posted to: hackernews
Google is paving the way to serve you ads based directly on your browsing history, instead of cookies.
minus-squareForestOrcalinkfedilink6•10 months agoI had a firefox extension that randomly surfed around the web, making a complete pile of unrelated garbage out of one’s browsing history, for circumstances like this.
minus-squareSenexcakelinkfedilinkEnglish2•10 months agoI remember that! It clicked every single link on every website you used to muddy up your personal data.
minus-squareForestOrcalinkfedilink3•10 months agoI would run it when I was AFK, cuz it was so annoying to see all the trash created. And stopped using it pretty quickly.
I had a firefox extension that randomly surfed around the web, making a complete pile of unrelated garbage out of one’s browsing history, for circumstances like this.
I remember that! It clicked every single link on every website you used to muddy up your personal data.
I would run it when I was AFK, cuz it was so annoying to see all the trash created. And stopped using it pretty quickly.