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teft to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 2 years ago

Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome

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Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome

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teft to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 2 years ago
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Chrome now directly tracks users, generates a "topic" list it shares with advertisers.
  • @SendMePhotos@lemmy.world
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    Fun fact, Firefox used to be called… Netscape… Yeah… Let’s see how many miklenials are in here!

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      Sort of. Netscape released the program’s source code and Firefox used that as a base, but it wasn’t like they took Netscape and just changed the name to Firefox like your comment implies. They were competing browsers for a while.

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        Fair enough. My bad.

    • SokathHisEyesOpen
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      And remember what happened when Microsoft tried to kill Netscape? That needs to happen again, but against Google.

    • @Fraeco@lemm.ee
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      I’ve just browsed with Netscape. But did not know this fact.

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        I’ve been corrected that it is a branch off of, not a direct evolution of, Netscape.

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