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If it is a service, Google will be sent all of my browsing history. That sounds like a very bad idea that hopefully will get shot down.
by corty 6y ago
If it is a service, Google will be sent all of my browsing history. That sounds like a very bad idea that hopefully will get shot down.
- jfk13 6y ago> Google will be sent all of my browsing history No, the browser locally determines what cohort to assign you to (based on your browsing behavior, etc). Only the resulting cohort gets exposed to Google (or other advertisers). So they don't get your browsing history, they get the derived conclusion that you're one of X thousand people who share a certain collection of interests. (You may still be unhappy about that, but it's certainly not the same as exposing your browsing history.)
- corty 6y agoYes, but then it isn't a service, it is a locally running piece of software that can be included in chromium.
- megous 6y agoGoogle is sent most of what people type into the location bar anyway (in real time character by character), except if they start by some prefix that makes it look like they're typing a link. Regardless of whether they have an account or hit enter. That sounds like a much worse idea than this ad thing, yet here we are.