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And then what? Google will say that it's protecting critical functions from breaking and to piss off. Suddenly Google is a monopoly in the ad space because th

And then what? Google will say that it's protecting critical functions from breaking and to piss off. Suddenly Google is a monopoly in the ad space because they have the predominant browser and let through only their ads.

zie 7y ago
they arguably are effectively a monopoly now. Them doing things like this isn't remotely new. They just got caught tracking everyone's smart TV usage. Nothing will happen to them until: 1) the Government decides to intervene. 2) Users give up and start using different services. I'm pushing for #2, but then I switched off like a decade ago, when I saw the writing on the wall.
- ummonk 7y ago
  Were they tracking smart tv usage or were smart tv manufacturers using google apis to store their tracking data?
  - zie 7y ago
    Both it seems: "The most prevalent tracker, Google's doubleclick.net, showed up in 975 of the top 1,000 Roku channels, with Google analytics trackers showing up in 360, the researchers found." - https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/09/studies-google-netflix-and-others-are-watching-how-you-watch-your-tv/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/09/studies-google-n...
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