Why Privacy Badger Opts You Out of Google's "Privacy Sandbox"

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21 points·colinprince··6 comments

I'm surprised that a browser extension is able to change your saved preferences at all.

Well it's extending the browser. There are plenty of situations where ignoring or modifying the browser preferences would be the optimal path.

Cookie management it an easy area to point to as an example.

legit question. would anyone rather pay monthy for chrome. pay per 100 google searches. youtube premium be the only option. and pay for the google suites. for 0 tracking and ads what so ever? or is this model.

I pay for search- Kagi- but I would not pay for what you described. Not because it does not sound valuable, but because it would require trust that they are doing what I’m paying them for. Alphabet is morally bankrupt and not to be trusted.

Personally I pay for search via Kagi, but the other two I don't really care about since I don't use either. I also pay for email, private DNS, storage and a few other "core" services that I use every day that you might reasonably consider using Google for otherwise.

Personally it's worth it to me for various reasons, but I realise I'm in a fairly privileged position being about to cough up ~$50 AUD a month for these rather than using the "data funded" free alternatives.

This should be obvious by now --- Everything Google does has privacy invasion baked into it.

This new "Privacy Sandbox" is no exception. It's a laughable attempt to limit invasion of your web privacy exclusively to Google.

Apparently, it took Google's legal team some time to wake up to the anti-competitive implications.

This is just the latest in a long, long list of reasons why if you value your privacy, you should just say "No" to all things Google.

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