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Google Chrome now targets ads based on your browser history, here's how to turn that off (www.techspot.com)

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Google is gradually introducing a new method for delivering targeted ads in Chrome that aims to bypass the controversy surrounding cookies by using browsing history instead. This...

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The machanical extraction of highly personal data (did you have sex last night?) to build faux diary entries on people (this person lives alone) so others can easly pair their tailored attacks on the psyche to those who are vunrable. Were all vulnerable, just in diffrent places. Just gotta figure yours out.

I wish these systems were built to help match people with helpful products, but the non concent bugs me intensely.