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Got this notification when I opened Chrome when coming back to my desk after lunch.

"We changed our privacy settings to allow us to snoop on what you're looking at and shove you ads accordingly. Feel free to opt out, but we'll probably opt you back in when you aren't paying attention."

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[–] HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 year ago

"Give us your preference data to prevent your preference data from being used in advertising."

[–] Rooki@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why tho? Just block ads at all. They just want to be "friendly" when the web drm changes hit

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[–] Sygheil@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

“We changed our privacy settings to allow us to snoop on what you’re looking at and shove you ads accordingly. Feel free to opt out, but we’ll probably opt you back in when you aren’t paying attention.”

-Me wiping the coffee I spat after reading this. Hilarious 😂

[–] Frederic@beehaw.org 14 points 1 year ago (5 children)
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[–] tuxrandom@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Serious question: Why do you use Chrome, a browser made by the world's largest advertising and spying company, when you give the slightest f* about privacy?

At least use Ungoogled Chromium if you're not gonna switch to something actually privacy-focused. Basically the same functionality, but without Google's spyware.

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[–] HughJanus@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] Hello_there@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Who the duck thinks ad personalization is a good thing. I'm glad YouTube shows me ads for seniors on Medicare. It keeps me disaffected and hating ads.

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[–] sadreality@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago

You will use the internet and I will creep on your every move because you are a pleb.

Ain't creepy at all imho

[–] lazylion_ca@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 year ago

My android phone showed me something similar yesterday. Not even in Chrome. I think it's account based.

[–] aebletrae@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

Ah, Enhanced, the folks that brought us interrogation.

[–] masterairmagic@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago

Fuck Google

[–] FellowHuman@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Soo enhanced privacy means "Give as more data"? I'm so happy I moved to firefox. It was pain, but worth it.

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[–] theodewere@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

i'd like to smack them on the nose with my government

[–] charly4994@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

Saw this pop up at work today and thought it was a bit too on the nose for a parody

[–] elrik@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Does anyone know if this is coming to (Chrome based) Edge?

For the last year and for all of the crap Google has been changing in Google Chrome, I've actually been pretty happy with Edge (never thought I'd be saying that).

[–] Dahjoos@reddthat.com 13 points 1 year ago

My guess is that it's unlikely, Microsoft doesn't want to empower Google even more, and running your OS is everything they need to plunder your data

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Side chat... am I the only one who has started finding Bing more useful than Google? I never thought I would type that statement out in my life...

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[–] jarfil@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Just opted in.

Am I supposed to disable uBlock Origin and Pihole now? 😈

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