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kleopi
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Google apparently announced, they would stop most types of tracking.
Whats up with that and why would they give up their almost monopoly on advertisement.
Am I missing something?

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  • 0
    still got an 10k uptick in trackers in the past 24h.
    ps: thank you, brave browser. im too noob to check for myself
    edit: dont count on me to learn how all of these works beyond mitming wifi packages.
  • 3
    Probably to do with the backlash with Apple enforcing apps now provide details about what personal info is tracked and what is anonymised.
  • 2
    I've read they'll use the webbrowsers user agent to group people into target groups. Like if you've got an iphone or a windows pc. And with some machine learning magic they get similar sales results.
  • 1
    Yes and I believe them
  • 4
    What would be really nice if the european union came up with a law that banned tracked personalised ads.
  • 1
    The key here is **third party** harvesting of individual data
  • 4
    fingerprint+ml=id without cookies.
  • 1
    You've to get used to tracking if you want to use quality stuff for free.
  • 7
    @theabbie the beauty of FOSS is that I don’t
  • 4
    @10Dev That's just different business model, if you're self-hosting, you're paying, if it's free, someone else is paying. There aren't much FOSS running at a scale Google products run.
  • 4
    @theabbie entirely true. FOSS wasn’t built for the web, where google dominates
  • 2
    Can’t remember where I saw it? But I was presuming most companies were moving away from cookies and are now encouraging API integrations for tracking. Facebook suggested I implement this method 💁🏼‍♀️
  • 1
    @bashleigh yeah read that too that server side tracking is the next big thing.
  • 0
    They are marketing the need to destroy third party cookes.
    They will still track users with other means like universal ID from the iab.
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