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To the surprise of no one, Google is being accused of abusing its power with ads (www.theregister.com)

submitted 1 year ago by ICastFist@programming.dev to c/technology

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TLDR of the article:

Google is showing ads outside of YT, in those side players that everyone hates while they just want to read articles, but counting them as normal views.

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[–] Isildun 1 points 1 year ago

If they know who you are on the platform they won’t stop knowing who you are off-platform. As a really basic example, browser cookies make cross-site tracking easy (there are other more effective methods of tracking like fingerprinting or behavioral analysis too).

Plus, the average user is logged into Chrome. They don’t even need to track you in that case — you gave your info to them!