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The Federated Learning of Cohorts and now the Topics API are part of a plan to pitch an “alternative” tracking platform, and Google argues that there has to be a tracking alternative—you can’t just not be spied on.

lmao what the fuck kind of dystopia are we living in

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It’d make the world a better place, but a big company would make slightly less money, therefore it’s unthinkable to even attempt it.

See also: vehicle emissions standards

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In the case of Google, the effect on advertising bringing in “slightly less money” is an understatement :)

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So this means that the internet could have always worked fine without invasive cookies and everything they told us about it being impossible was just a lie.

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Cookies serve important purposes for doing things like keeping you signed in as you navigate through multiple pages on a site.

The issue is that most parts of the internet were developed by people more interested in all the cool stuff you could do with it, and not at all concerned about the potential misuse by large multi billion dollar corporations.

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You defend cookies in general. But the person youre replying to might have meant third-party cookies by “invasive cookies” ?

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I’d suggest a password manager. Its not the prettiest solution but its worth it.

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Google’s utopia is humanity’s dystopia.

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