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I might have misunderstood this but is Android really trying to push this as tracking as a privacy upgrade, simply because it let's us choose which of our interests we want advertisers to have access to?

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[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 12 points 8 months ago

Yes google has this information - because we logged in and gave it to them - now they need our permission to wall it off from other businesses, thus creating THE revenue stream of the internet.

So, if you’ll just click this little button here.

This little one. Right there.