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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. Nothin
by 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 agoWere they tracking smart tv usage or were smart tv manufacturers using google apis to store their tracking data?
- zie 7y agoBoth 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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