Google monitoring millions of users without consent in new ad test

wnd.com ^ | 4/4/2021 | Bob Unruh

[rktman]

Google has made millions of its users the targets of a test for a new ad program without informing them, warns a privacy activist group.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation said Google's test trial of its Federated Learning of Cohorts without consent "is a concrete breach of user trust in service of a technology that should not exist."

Under the program, Google Chrome browsers "will begin sorting their users into groups based on behavior, then sharing group labels with third-party trackers and advertisers around the web."

"Although Google announced this was coming, the company has been sparse with details about the trial until now," EFF said. "We’ve pored over blog posts, mailing lists, draft web standards, and Chromium’s source code to figure out exactly what’s going on."

EFF said Google "designed FLoC to help advertisers target ads once third-party cookies go away. During the trial, trackers will be able to collect FLoC IDs in addition to third-party cookies."

[rktman]

Foogle them. I switched to "Brave" a while back as my web browser. I do a disc clean and run System Mechanic every morning before getting in to online stuff. The reduction in garbage that gets cleaned up is dramatic to say the least. Before, using firefox, System Mech would sometimes find over 10,000 items of junk. Now it's backed off to maybe a 100. Same with disc clean. Used to have 170-200 k of junk. Now maybe a hundred. I know a lot of everything goes through google and IE but at least it's reduced now. I never used them anyway.

[glorgau]

I was wondering why that “Deplorable” tag was coming up next to my account name.

[rktman]

Hey at least you didn’t get tagged with ‘insurrectionist racist’ tag. :-)

[stanne]

Anyone using google who ever expected to be not monitored is silly

If I do much as discuss any subject, tv show, symptoms, ideas / I get advertisement for same. Has been that way for years. Duh

[Blennos]

How does System Mechanic compare to CCleaner?

[Seruzawa]

The 3 faces of evil:

[Osage Orange]

F google...

[cgbg]

Privacy is as quaint a concept as horses and buggies.

It does not exist anymore—and any claims to the contrary are lies.

Snowden explained how it works for those who were willing to listen and learn.

[Army Air Corps]

Zuckerberg even looks like a villain from a Sci-Fi movie.

[Vaduz]

3 monkey media

[rktman]

Never used CC so can’t say.

[Seruzawa]

He looks like a cultist from "Beneath the Planet of the Apes."

[hercuroc]

Yep switch to Brave.

Plus they are soon coming out with their own search engine so you won’t have to “google” it.

When you switch make sure to turn adds on because you will earn BAT tokens which are like a crypto currently going for a $1.15.

[2harddrive]

Here is the latest Mike Lindell video documenting the 2020 election fraud. This Physicist reverse-engineered the election fraud algorithms employed by China.

https://lindelltv.com/mike-lindell-tv-releases-irrefutable-election-theft-proof/

[Yo-Yo]

Google has made millions of its users the targets of a test for a new ad program without informing them, warns a privacy activist group.

If you don't like it, then don't use Google.

See, that was easy.

[EEGator]

Wouldn’t one have to know the inputs and outputs to engineer the algorithm?

[rktman]

I don’t intentionally but never fails that somewhere along the links they get a bite. :-)

[time4good]

I like Dissenter - the Brave port that Andrew Torba (GAB) has available. No junk. Pretty fast.

[T Ruth]

If you don't like it, then don't use Google. See, that was easy.

What!

Did you ever look to see what javascript is running in the background of almost every website out there?

googleadservices.com
googletagmanager.com
imasdk.googleapis.com
google.com
adsense.com (a Google company)

And there are more. Google is everywhere.

[GOP Poet]

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