[S]ites can ask Chrome directly what kinds of topics you’re interested in – topics automatically selected by Chrome from your browsing history – so that ads personalized to your activities can be served… Apple and Mozilla have rejected at least the Topics API for interest-based ads on privacy grounds.
In other words, it’s not helping privacy. Or in better other words:
Google’s definition of privacy is not the dictionary definition most might understand. Rather it’s the ad industry and legal definition where privacy is not so much a binary state – public or private – but a notionally consent-based trade of information to gain access to ad-supported content.
The much better way is called “topics” btw:
In other words, it’s not helping privacy. Or in better other words:
I feel fuckin dirty even reading that last paragraph. It’s so detached from any sane reality.
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