[HN Gopher] If you're in the EU, you can now decide how much dat...
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       If you're in the EU, you can now decide how much data to share with
       Google
        
       Author : fariszr
       Score  : 17 points
       Date   : 2024-01-20 17:23 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
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       | giuliomagnifico wrote:
       | I checked some days ago and -for me- by default all the sharing
       | services were disabled. Looks like it's a opt-in feature (I
       | hope).
        
       | jackjeff wrote:
       | In the long run Google probably does not care that much. They've
       | been busy moving the tracking into the browser itself with the
       | Protected Audience API.
       | 
       | Technically they don't track you personally and nobody has a
       | database of your preferences. The browser does and just runs
       | auctions to serve you ads.
       | 
       | This kind of tech renders the DMA, GDPR and cookie banners moot,
       | while keeping the money printing machine that is Google Ad
       | business running.
        
         | jdksmdbtbdnmsm wrote:
         | > _nobody has a database of your preferences_
         | 
         | They absolutely do. They're merely not necessarily labelled as
         | _your_ preferences.
        
         | EMIRELADERO wrote:
         | > Technically they don't track you personally and nobody has a
         | database of your preferences. The browser does and just runs
         | auctions to serve you ads.
         | 
         | The law does not care about technicallities. GDPR, for example,
         | doesn't specify a medium in which the personal data must be
         | collected.
        
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