Google enables advertisers a look into your browsing history…

  • U de Recife@lemmy.sdfeu.org
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    1 year ago

    It’s crazy to think that this level of intrusion is considered fair game. The way these behaviors are normalized is completely dystopian.

    • SokathHisEyesOpen@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      It’s absolutely insane that this is legal. This type of spying is explicitly forbidden in the constitution of the United States of America, but since it’s a private corporation it’s suddenly okay? The FBI has been known to purchase information about consumers from private corporations. This is a back door around the 4th amendment. Actually since corporations are essentially governing by proxy, buying laws and legislatures, this is a constitutional violation.

      • Kumatomic@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        1 year ago

        Incremental changes have muffled the impact to most consumers sadly and as long as that works they’ll keep doing it.

    • mvilain@infosec.pub
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      1 year ago

      They already did this with Youtube. I turned of Youtube history because I didn’t want anyone being able to track what I watch. All of a sudden, Youtube’s home page for my account was blank with a message that said “Turn on history if you want to see recommendations”. I sat with that for a couple days, going to Youtube to check out channels I’d subscribed to. It wasn’t the same. When I got to Youtube for some distraction, I want to discover something different from my usual stuff. So I delete my history weekly as part of “routine maintainence”.

      • El Barto@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        That deletion strategy is useless. They can still retain that information indefinitely.

        Just use the search bar.