Google bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome (ars technica)

<a href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/09/googles-widely-opposed-ad-platform-the-privacy-sandbox-launches-in-chrome/" rel="nofollow">This
ars technica article</a> looks at the widespread deployment of Google's
"privacy sandbox" in the Chrome browser:


	If you haven't been following this, this feature will track the web
	pages you visit and generate a list of advertising topics that it
	will share with web pages whenever they ask, and it's built
	directly into the Chrome browser. It's been in the news previously
	as "FLoC" and then the "Topics API," and despite widespread
	opposition from just about every non-advertiser in the world,
	Google owns Chrome and is one of the world's biggest advertising
	companies, so this is being railroaded into the production builds.


For those who use Chrome anyway, there are instructions on how to disable
this functionality.

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