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Both. It will prevent other sites from seeing some of your data, while giving Google more of your data. Of course Google wants to do this, it gives them a competitive edge. Smells like brewing lawsuits, though.

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radix@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Using one dominant position (Chrome market share) to extend into another (data brokerage) is textbook Monopoly 101.

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- bus_factor@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Yeah, we saw Microsoft do that with Windows and Internet Explorer back in the day.
  
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helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

Smells like brewing lawsuits, though.

This is America. No one cares about your privacy and corporations own the government.

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- bus_factor@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Google also operates in the EU. They’ll probably get a slap on the wrist in the end, but first there will be a widely publicized lawsuit.
  
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- obinice@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Damn, and here I thought I lived in the United Kingdom.
  
  I guess this is America? Who knew!
  
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  - helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    EVERYWHERE IS AMERICA
    
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    angrystego@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    We’re all living in Amerika, Amerika ist wunderbar!
    
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- BearOfaTime@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I hate to admit how accurate this is
  
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Send_me_nude_girls@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Second pull the ladder move of Google in a shirt succession.

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