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Besides Chrome, Google’s Privacy Sandbox initiative is on Android to let apps show you relevant ads in a more private manner. The beta started earlier this year, and Google is now prompting more users about it with new Ad privacy settings.

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I don't want 'relevant ads' to be private. I want NO ADS.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Speaking generally about ads, the issue is that people (a) don't like ads, but (b) also don't like paying for things that could be ad-supported. And the money for things that are ad-supported is going to come from one place or another, or they won't be done.

Wanting to get rid of ads is a legitimate preference -- but I'm saying that that probably comes with paying for something that wasn't paid for before.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

My experience with so many things starting as pay instead of ads, but then ads being added over time, is why I reject ads outright. I don't trust companies to not double dip.

That said, I do pay for streaming services to avoid ads and refuse to pay for the ones that still have ads after paying.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Netflix is going there.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Ahem, cable TV.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

See, this is what I think people get wrong about ad tech: the problem are not the ads themselves, but the tracking. I'm completely fine with ads, as long as I'm not tracked by their provider

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

I've gone so long without ads I am unaware of the concept of being fine with ads. It's too unfamiliar an experience now.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Internet ads that don't involve tracking are a thing of the past, so not worth discussing non-tracked ads as a middle ground.

Ads = tracking.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Unfortunately you're right

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I am ok with ads personally as long as it is context based ads with no data collections. So If I visit a tech website, I get tech ads. I understand running these servers cost money. Either you pay or ads. Currently, the issue is privacy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Well are you willing to pay for every site you visit?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If we assume the phone is my hardware. It needs to act in my best interest. So if I don't have the option to not see ads? Then is it really acting in my best interest?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

Google still sees all that data and we want privacy from them.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's what they're trying to sell you on, but it's way more privacy invasive and this was boycotted pretty heavily already

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I remember being convinced this is worse than the status quo but that was a year ago and I can't remember the major concerns now.

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

Happy AdAway user:)

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

Luckily for me, I'm a very boring person. No one really wants my data.