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

• 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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      • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Hooray pointless-nonsense-spew!

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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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      • IHaveTwoCows@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        How old is the internet now?..and this is only just now a problem?

        (Answer: internet is a year older than Queen Latifa)

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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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