Topics essentially works like this: rather than using cookies to track people around the web and figure out their interests from the sites they visit and the apps they use, websites can ask Chrome directly, via its Topics JavaScript API, what sort of things the user is interested in, and then display ads based on that. Chrome picks these topics of interest from studying the user’s browser history.

Isn’t this completely immoral? They are literally stealing the users private browsing history and uses it to boost their own profits.

  • katy ✨@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    But the website doesn’t end up with your browsing history…

    And you can opt out of this just like you can opt out of third party cookies.

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      1 year ago

      I would like to watch you opt out of all this every single time you sit down in the next class of your education institute or workplace.