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Anyone who thinks Google or Chrome is evil has no idea the scope or scale of what/where evil is. You haven't seen anything till you've worked with some of the groups Chrome has to deal with. IAB, & so many other advertising folks are wild & extremely lobbyist happy folks, who absolutely are intent on feeding the public to the wolves.

I don't know as much about the UK agencies Google has been wrestling with, but my vague sense is much of the UK has alas undergone severe regulatory capture. Here's the ICO finding in favor of tracking everyone, 'what if personalized ads are what consumers want': https://www.adexchanger.com/privacy/the-uks-data-protection-...

Anyhow, hopefully premature but RIP Privacy Sandbox. Very weird strange attempt. But as has been kind of always evident, 'you're going to miss us when we're gone'. And you could just turn these adverising-only APIs off, where-as third party cookies are deeply enmeshed in actual web flows as well as ads, alas.

> Anyone who thinks Google or Chrome is evil has no idea the scope or scale of what/where evil is.

There are degrees of evil. I mean sure they're not murdering babies, but they're definitely also not pro-humanity.

There's not a ton of details, but this thread from someone who helped launch Privacy Sandbox on how vicious the regulatory capture is, how hard it is to get anywhere is was pretty enjoyable for me,

https://bsky.app/profile/justinschuh.com/post/3lnig6smpls23

Ladybird (http://ladybird.org) is set to have an alpha version, sometime next year.

The project can be supported here: https://donorbox.org/ladybird

All those companies just want to provide value to users while breaking even on costs, it’s a shame they keep accidentally creating addictive products that break all user promises and keep adding more and more ways to squeeze out extra revenue.

> The goal of the Privacy Sandbox initiative is to develop new ways to strengthen online privacy while ensuring a sustainable, ad-supported internet.

What a joke

> The goal of the Privacy Sandbox initiative is to develop new ways to strengthen online privacy while ensuring a sustainable, ad-supported internet.

Is any user asking for this?

Nope, this caters to shareholders

Since Mozilla recently walked back on their claim to not sell data und brave did some shady affiliate tricks, there seems to be not major browser which to trust not to be corrupted by the ad industry.

Pretty much every website you use that you don't directly pay for us supported by ads. So, yeah.

You know they did have ads before tracking right? But I have had an ad blocker on my phone for over a decade. Anytime I use a device without an ad blocker - like my wife’s phone - the web is unusable.

1999 Do No Evil

2025 Only Do Evil

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