self@awful.systems to TechTakes@awful.systems • 1 year agoGoogle wants you to agree to a program to reduce web tracking by just letting Google have all your browsing data directlyexternal-linkmessage-square25 fedilinkarrow-up1171file-text
arrow-up1171external-linkGoogle wants you to agree to a program to reduce web tracking by just letting Google have all your browsing data directlyself@awful.systems to TechTakes@awful.systems • 1 year agomessage-square25 Commentsfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareSteve@awful.systemshexbear32·1 year agoWhen I worked in agencies you could pick the suits that had lost touch with reality by how much they seemed to believe that targeted ads are useful enough to be some kind of public service. Now google use the same rhetoric to justify user tracking linkfedilink
minus-squareself@awful.systemshexagonhexbear18·1 year agoon the engineering side, I keep having to turn down executive feature requests with “this is functionally indistinguishable from malware” linkfedilink
When I worked in agencies you could pick the suits that had lost touch with reality by how much they seemed to believe that targeted ads are useful enough to be some kind of public service. Now google use the same rhetoric to justify user tracking
on the engineering side, I keep having to turn down executive feature requests with “this is functionally indistinguishable from malware”