And cripple the global economy while he’s at it.

Not really a win for the casual web user - What Google will stop doing is selling web ads targeted to individual users’ browsing habits, and its Chrome browser will no longer allow cookies that collect that data for the means of selling to third party advertisers.

Meanwhile, Google will still track and target users on mobile devices, and it will still target ads to users based on their behavior on its own platforms, which make up the majority of its revenue and won’t be affected by the change.

Ad companies that rely on cookies will simply have to find another way to target users.

Lately I’ve been using more AI-derived search engines, I often need a direct answer to a certain problem, and not looking for a date specific answer. I haven’t used Google search for years, DDG is my daily driver but engines derived from chat GPT work for me. This is when I have a specific problem like when say building a recipe, or trouble shooting a mechanical problem etc. I use ask.ai or phind.com

I hear President Camacho smells like Axe body spray.

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Is that a metric or imperial cup and teaspoon?

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Older than that, this seems a bit like click bait, Intel secured a grant to build a chip plant in Israel in 2015. Actually there is a report from Reuters in 2014. This is just reporting on recurring contracts by the looks of it. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-intel-plant-idUSKCN0HH1F720140922/

And those who have ETFs or index funds that track the S&P 500 also have Tesla stock as a hot trash albatross to deal with.

They are a great company and are worth supporting in my opinion, they do care about privacy, are based in Switzerland of which was chosen as the location for its strong privacy laws and commitment to protecting user data.

Edit: they just emailed me announcing that they have a 40% end of year sale right now. (absolutely not affiliated)

I wish they could just sell email addresses for those that are hard up for money, but for me, I ended up paying for the mid-tier package for aforementioned reasons.

Why bother with Google when they can just ask your telco.

Writing from a privacy perspective remember, browser add-ons can potentially make it easier to fingerprint or recognize an individual. But still, I can’t help but love this new FF feature.

Given that Googles estimated annual revenue is between 160 - 180 billion, that 74 million is only 0.04625% (if taken from the lower estimate) I’m sure they would chalk it up to just the price of doing business.

Exactly what I was thinking.

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Thanks for the link, the part about disabling Ad privacy in Android is also helpful, I had no idea about this and all of it was turned on after the last os update.

And I have some bad news about Flipboard.

First it was Chat Control, and the US was flirting with it’s KOSA reform, now with elDAS 2.0 this all seems like global whac-a-mole for privacy. I read that elDAS was subject to approval behind closed doors in Brussels on November 8, What happened?

Surveillance capitalism is now the main goal of big tech and really this article outlines some great points. The psychology of the reward system we desire when using social media is now becoming a talking point with law makers, however I am worried any laws made to curb these companies will result in simply eroding our privacy more.

Some great points here, shedding light on how companies like Google, Microsoft, and Apple are making money from our data through (IoT) technology.

They’re not only selling us devices infused with their apps, but they’re also using our data to continually profit. As users we are like data farms, working for free in their schemes to suck up our privacy and us, the consumer, only pays for this intrusion.

It’s a double-dip way of making money off of us for sure, but I was surprised to find out in the end that the article was an ad for an independent operating system and device manufacturer. It’s a move in the right direction of course.

3…2…1…Waiting for olive oil prices to skyrocket now, even though the majority of it is manufactured in Spain, Italy, Greece, and Turkey.