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Google wants you to agree to a program to reduce web tracking by just letting Google have all your browsing data directly (meow.social)
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[–] ArtVandelay@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The absolute most insidious thing about this isn't the technology at use here. It's the complete and utter normalization of ads. Google doesn't even consider a world where ads don't exist, they're pushing the narrative that they are a normal aspect of life, and they're offering to help make that more relevant to everyday users. They're normalizing ads in front of your eyeballs 24 hours a day 7 days a week.

Christ I hate Google.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Heading towards a very enjoyable and economically sustainable future where the advertising industry is somehow bigger than the goods and services industries that supposedly need its services. But before I get into that, speaking of goods and services, this comment is sponsored by OpeRaid Shadow VPN, the only energy drink/razor blade delivery service for Pro Gamers…

[–] 200fifty@awful.systems 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

For real though, we must have reached Peak Ad at some point, or at least we're deep into the realm of diminishing returns. This can't go on forever, right? I mean there's a finite number of things that need to be advertised and a finite number of people with a finite amount of time and patience to look at ads. How long until it all collapses?

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 1 points 2 years ago

The market can remain irrational for longer than you and I can remain ~~solvent~~ sane.

[–] Clent@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

STOP USING CHROME!

[–] zerozaku@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Although Chrome needs to be ditched, few of the features of it are yet to be implemented into other browsers such as copying images to clipboard and dragging & dropping text from one app to another.

Idk why other browsers are not keeping up or idk if these are Chrome exclusive features.

[–] dditty@lemm.ee 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I recently switched entirely to Firefox and have yet to find a feature that I miss from Chrome that Firefox doesn't have.

[–] zerozaku@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I was talking about Chrome Android as the OP post is a screenshot of it

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

Just PWAs.

[–] dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Google Chrome runs like constipation on android

[–] Jakdracula@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This year so far I’ve deleted Reddit, twitter and now google.

[–] self@awful.systems 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

go for fucking broke and get rid of windows before it goes SaaS. it’s less painful than it sounds because daily driving linux will break your brain’s ability to feel pain

[–] naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

In the caverns of systemd, where the audio pulses and you are surrounded by the mad scribings of a thousand journals; you will lose yourself, and find something else. You will come back both more, and less.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

i tried using windows for a week when i was without my own laptop and had to borrow the loved one's spare gaming rig. even just living in firefox, i hate windows with the fire of a thousand suns. and this was a relatively well behaved win10.

[–] naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

My wife uses windows and sometimes I dual boot it to play games with her.

She laughs at how rapidly I transform into a raging boomer but I forgive her for she does not know.

Linux has problems but windows is just fucked up. The moment you want to do anything outside the lines it becomes an utter horror show. no univeral interface (I'm stupid, you can tell by my posts, so I just learn CLI and do everything that way), no nice consistent model like "everything is a file", no scripting language everything respects. It's insane and baffling.

I know Microsoft has brilliant people working for them so windows is inexplicable

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

drawing on a screenshot in snip n sketch crashes explorer.exe.

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

don't worry about losing yourself though - everything defaults to ext4 and the ubuntu devs have pinkypromised that it's no longer totally awful dogshit that you regretfully notice only after some time and you've loaded significant data onto the system

[–] naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

what's wrong with ext4? I'm stupid and use it for everything. Should I not?

[–] self@awful.systems 1 points 2 years ago

it’s fine and I use it for extremely performance-focused (see: linux gaming) and embedded systems, but LVM+ext4 is generally a better idea and I use ZFS for systems where extreme reliability and storage flexibility are important (so just my NAS machine really)

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Sites you visit can ask Chrome for your interests to show you ads.

Nifty. Let's ask what my browser has to offer instead (Firefox + uBlock Origin).

Sites can not show you ads.

Hmm that's a tough choice hmm.

[–] argv_minus_one@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

WEI: “Hold my beer.”

[–] 200fifty@awful.systems 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I like how the assumption seems to be that the thing users object to about "websites track your browsing history around the web in order to show you targeted ads" is... the "websites" part

[–] self@awful.systems 1 points 2 years ago

holy fuck, that’s such a good description of the shitty marketing tactic google is trying here. they’re shifting focus away from the awful shit they’re doing more of to something that doesn’t matter

[–] BobbyBandwidth@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I always tell my kids, as a consumer, I am SO grateful to have been better served by more relevant ads.

[–] dditty@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

How else would you have known about products you already bought a few days prior? 🤣