Buried in the article is this little gem.
Gee, Google...
Whatever happened to: “Don’t Be Evil”?
That slogan has become so bitterly ironic that it would make even George Orwell himself blush... It’s right up there with his Ministries of “Plenty”, “Peace”, “Love”, and “Truth”.
The question always remains.....who determines what the level of “extreme political views” are.....who measures these against what?
Delete chrome. Get Brave.
Delete Gmail. Get protonmail.
Get a paid VPN.
In 1984 it was the government that did the surveilling. In today’s USA, it’s the government by proxy. Major corporations willingly do the job that the government is afraid to let us know that it does. The government gives those corporations permission, and support.
No matter who does it, the end result is the same.
The algorithm can be fooled... if everyone started doing ‘illogical’ things online, it would quickly come undone.
People “people prone to extreme political views.” “Prone to.” So we are going from thoughtcrime to thought pre-crime.
And what is an extreme political view?
Morons.
They’re STILL keeping the tracking cookies - they’re just storing them on their servers instead of using your PC.
Cookies originated as a “context/state” storage and were kept on YOUR PC because when the internet first took off there was no such thing as cloud servers or large amounts of storage.
These things are common place now - so it makes far more sense for google to take it all in house - where it can’t be regulated, seen, or controlled by you.
They’ve also modified their Chrome browser (which is now the basis for about 80% of all browsers on the internet including Google’s but Microsoft’s Edge and Brave) to PREVENT extensions from ad blocking (and hence their tracking system behind the scenes)
But they’re good netizens and will stop using tracking cookies. See? They’re the good guys.
Someone could make a camouflage bot to autosurf google and feed misinformation.
Isn’t this like fishing with dynamite?
I think the advertisers should have to be more sporting.
Privacy Badger add-on
I am not a reddit fan, don’t go there much, but there is useful information there.
DeGoogle
https://old.reddit.com/r/degoogle/
Lots of useful info on getting Google out of your life.
the creepy line, just gets creepier every day
Just yesterday it came up in a conversation with my SEO person. Spending hours crafting a good meta description for your webpages...Google will rewrite
Ever wonder why your meta description text (that you add to describe a page) doesn’t show when your site comes up in search results? You’re not alone there; turns out Google rewrites metas 62.78% of the time. They rewrite to get the consumer to click on certain websites/content, supposedly to better match the persons query. LOL.
Check out this article for more.
https://ahrefs.com/blog/meta-description-study/
Assumes usage of Chrome, Firefox, or Edge?
Translation. The Google Chrome browser will track your browser history, won't tell you it is doing so, and then lump you into a group based on your browsing.
"Google's proposals are bad for independent media owners, bad for independent advertising technology and bad for marketers," coalition director James Rosewell said in a release.Yep. As a (very) small business owner, all I can say is "damned right."
Google is weaning itself off user-tracking “cookies”
AdBolckers are working just fine they try another scam.
They could move upscale and use English Muffins or Bagels.
“extreme political views” < > ANTIFA.
You have nailed the most important thing said here today.
Once they give us the Communist Chinese rating we are doomed. Surveillance plus totalitarian government crushes freedom and dissent. The end.