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What's going on with major changes to privacy on Chrome? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by BackOnMyBS@lemmy.world to c/outoftheloop@lemmy.world

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What changes are they making, and how to prevent them affecting users?

Also, does Privacy Badger, uBlock Origin, or a VPN with ad-blocking and anti-tracking prevent the new data collection through Chrome?

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[–] chris@l.roofo.cc 20 points 1 year ago

I don't think that is quite right. As far as I understand it the new feature generates topics from your browser history that website can use for targeted ads. So if you visit banking websites it might add to the finance topic. I don't think Websites get access to the history. Still it is a shitty idea and please use Firefox.