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So, before we were being followed opportunistically by many advertisers, but no one had full information. Now Google is going to classify all of us for any comp

So, before we were being followed opportunistically by many advertisers, but no one had full information. Now Google is going to classify all of us for any company who wants to know. That's a net loss of privacy. The flock system sounds like the Chinese social credit score. I'm wondering what things will be conditioned on FlockID. There are going to be elite flocks and worthless flocks. "Sorry, our services are available only to flock-3453 and flock-2234. Losers like flock-23232 need not come."

teitoklien 6y ago
Or even a bit more sneaky , sorry but web requests from Flock-3453 is going to be served at a higher priority than flock-2234. your youtube is slow ? , oh honey Just click on these few websites to change your flock id to one of a more advertisement friendly one. Looks like they found one the most computationally cheapest way to discriminate against users on the internet. One identifier to discriminate them all :)
PoignardAzur 6y ago
That's not remotely how it works.