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Posted by ExMachina73 11 hours ago

Chrome again exempts Google from user site data settings(lapcatsoftware.com)
406 points | 60 commentspage 2
cute_boi 6 hours ago|
> all Google Search results are now opaque https://www.google.com/goto?url= garbage rather than the site URLs!

Can google justify why are they doing this? I wish google will die sooner if they start behaving like this.

avaer 5 hours ago||
1) So the backend can track you across fingerprinted links

2) So you can't know what's searched without getting tracked

You're the product, not the customer.

1e1a 4 hours ago|||
Interesting observation: As soon as you right click on a link, it switches from that to https://www.google.com/url?...
troupo 1 hour ago|||
> Can google justify why are they doing this?

Look at Google's earnings reports and see what constitutes 80-90% of their revenues and profits

iririririr 3 hours ago|||
they do that because they added this dark pattern on gmail almost two decades ago and absolutely nobody ever complained.

why wouldn't they expand it?

SV_BubbleTime 5 hours ago||
Remember AMP?

Baby steps and they’ll try again.

nubinetwork 2 hours ago|||
Google still uses amp on websites with a lot of ads... go figure that the king of ads dislikes some ads.
iririririr 3 hours ago|||
they don't have to! they remembered they control all browsers. much easier for the same goals they had with amp
tjpnz 6 hours ago||
Google needs to be broken up.
thinker34 7 hours ago||
>> I’m personally inclined to cite Hanlon’s razor here rather than engage in conspiracy theories.

That is a likely case. Chrome is their closed source software unlike the Chromium browser.

alance 32 minutes ago||
Does the same behaviour manifest in Chromium?
LastTrain 7 hours ago||
Hanlon’s Razor applies to human behavior, not corporations.
tehlike 7 hours ago||
Engineers are humans.
edoceo 7 hours ago|||
Corporations are not, they're made of humans but they behave worse than an individual.
rectang 6 hours ago|||
Fully agree. Humans are social animals who behave differently in different contexts, and the corporate context statistically ensures that the humans inside of it behave in all sorts of lamentable ways.
anticensor 5 hours ago||||
Corporations are just groups of people working under a common name towards a common goal, even when that goal is flimsy or bad.
TeMPOraL 2 hours ago|||
> Corporations are just groups of people working under a common name towards a common goal

Exactly in the same way as humans are just groups of cells working under a common genetic identity towards a common goal.

b112 3 hours ago|||
Yes, but the worst human in an org, has the potential to drag the whole org down. Further, people are not aligned, so groups may disagree with an act, but each lack a majority to effect change. And group infighting may mean no cooperation.

We see this in politics. Orgs are political too.

(no "political" doesn't mean US Left/Righr here. It means simply "political" which can have nothing to do with government or party politics)

isncjwjxjwnd 6 hours ago|||
And who do you think makes these behavioural decisions? There is no “corporation”, there are, however, those currently on that company’s payroll.

It’s their fault. The people. The humans. The ones working there. The ones knowingly employing their knowledge in service of the company.

It’s always the humans.

cute_boi 6 hours ago|||
Politicians are also humans, everyone working for De Beers are also human... Please stop justifying egregious behavior from company who is destroying the fabric of internet with too many useless ads....And it isn't first time they are doing it, these "engineers" were the one who removed mv2 without better ad blocks in mv3.
tehlike 6 hours ago|||
1. ads are not useless. 2. without ads, there would be significantly less free content for people to read. 3. politicians are human too, but not the best of us except a few. Yes.

It's hip to say ads make things worse, but reality is often much more nuanced.

My original point being, many times an external person may think something is intentional when it may very well be a bug or may be there for a good reason.

I have observed a few of those both as an external person or an internal person.

Geezus_42 1 hour ago|||
Can't remember the last time I saw an ad for something I was actually interested in. These days I am often discouraged from buying a product based on ads.
jasomill 4 hours ago|||
I don't think anyone is denying the value of advertising to Google or its advertisers.

But with fewer ads influencing their spending, readers might have more disposible income left over to fund content.

charcircuit 6 hours ago|||
>useless ads

If the ads were useless, advertisers would not pay for them to exist.

>without better ad blocks in mv3

MV3 adblockers were built before MV2 was deprecated.

cute_boi 6 hours ago||
Just for your info classic ublock style doesn't work on mv3. Google have severely limited adblocking in chrome now. They deprecated very late due to pressure from people, not out of goodwill.

Useless to users, not to advertisers. And, many people like me have never purchased any products after seeing ads at least on internet.

Abdullah_Sattar 5 hours ago||
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suqingfu 4 hours ago||
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bergheim 5 hours ago|
I hate $THING Firefox does, and I'll complain about it, and I will use $CHROMIUM browser and not complain about that for some reason!