3B Chrome Users Are About to See This Privacy Sandbox Pop-Up

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33 points·bookofjoe··8 comments

> features that give you more choice over the ads you see

I don't need more choice, I need there to be no tracking.

The privacy sandbox does severely limit tracking too. Essentially any tracking done within the sandbox is not possible to be on an individual basis because the API surface is too constrained. Still “tracking”, but tracking a generalised abstract version of someone that looks a bit like you, rather than you specifically.

At least that’s my rough understanding. I’m fairly privacy conscious and don’t have a particular problem with the privacy sandbox, I think it’ll significantly increase the privacy of most users.

Wouldn’t this make it much easier for advertisers to fingerprint browsers by providing extra data points to narrow down clients?

I believe you can’t mix it with non-sandbox data. That’s the sandbox bit in fact.

AFAIK they'll also be working on reducing the fingerprint surface area.

I was using chrome at work and safari at home, and seeing this in settings on chrome a few weeks ago pushed me to just install Firefox at work. Works great, not regrets. The font on HN is a little different though.

Try brave then

Shhhh! lets all just go along until they switch off 3rd party cookies, then we can switch off this abomination without "breaking" the web.

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