Comment on Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome

DeadNinja@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• stevedidWHAT@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Give it time. Greed is greed, just a matter of time. Personally I’m back to use the old carrier pigeon. Kinda slow but probably still better than dialup

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  • Seasoned_Greetings@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    And soon, the carrier pigeon breeders will start tagging them with tracking chips…

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    • stevedidWHAT@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Stooooop 😂😂😂

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  • kabobglance@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Carrier pidgeons are still faster than the internet, tested again this year to prove it

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    • Malfeasant@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Bandwidth, maybe, but that latency…

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  • cjthomp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Or they just didn’t think it was funny…

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    • stevedidWHAT@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      oR mAyBe I JuSt got DowNvoTe brIgaDeD

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    • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Absolutely not. I’ve seen what you people think is funny.

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• AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  What’s Opera based on? My friends mostly use Mac, so they all use Opera and Chrome, but I have gotten them to stop using Chrome.

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  • Angius@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Nearly every browser is Chromium-based. Additionally, Opera is Chinese-owned.

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    • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      So? It isn’t google. Also google and Mozilla have Asian employees so I guess you’ll have to be not racist.

      I do agree that the Chinese government is problematic though.

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      • kattenluik@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I’d like to point out that they said nothing about it being a bad thing and that all they did was say it was Chinese-owned, hence making your comment a pointless attack of nonsense.

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      • mercury@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Chromium is owned by Google. That should be bad enough

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  • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Opera was bought by a Chinese data analytics company, and once that happened, they scrapped their engine and used chromium to save money.

    They have questionable CCP ties too.

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    • IHaveTwoCows@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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      • Sentau@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Maybe use that info to try and influence the public in the same way that cambridge analytics did for the 2016 elections.

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      • punkisundead@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Someone having that data is a problem in itself

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      • stevehobbes@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        lol. This thread is about people mad that google is doing it, and you’re saying so what if a nation state does it?

        The answer is the same either way - to either sell the data who want to manipulate you into doing or thinking what they want or by directly manipulating you into doing or thinking what you want.

        Same with Reddit and lemmy. It doesn’t take a whole lot of investment (on a state level actor basis) to manipulate small and large communities or individuals into thinking something is normal or mainstream. Or convincing them that everyone loves this product or it’s so popular or whatever.

        The CCP sensors their entire internet for their people and collects all sorts of information to root out dissidents. What good thing do you think is going to come from them having that data?

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  • csolisr@communities.azkware.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Opera has unfortunately given up and switched to Chromium as its backend.

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  • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    At least its not chrome

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