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Google Chrome now targets ads based on your browser history, here's how to turn that off (www.techspot.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Google is gradually introducing a new method for delivering targeted ads in Chrome that aims to bypass the controversy surrounding cookies by using browsing history instead. This...

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (11 children)

To all the "use Firefox" people, my work website requires Chrome, so I appreciate this OP.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (9 children)

You can use Chromium for that. Also it's not a website then.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

nope. thought so too until i had to install chrome in the middle of a meeting.

Also it's not a website then.

[–] kono_throwaway_da 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

A website should be universal and not dependent on what browser you are using. I say that but we are all suffering from Chromeitis just like Internet Exploreritis in the 2000s...

Web devs never learn.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

well i agree on what it should be, but that isn't the case. i use firefox on my own time but have to use chrome to make a living. and no, the user agent isn't the problem