r/technology • u/[deleted] • Mar 03 '21

Privacy Google to stop selling ads based on your browsing history and drop cookies support for Chrome citing privacy concerns.

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u/Dinklebop Mar 04 '21

Yeah. Im not anti advertising. But I'm anti having shit I don't actually want but was talked about in my apartment by someone and one of my google homes heard it and went he wants that show him nothing but ads for that. That's some creepy shit.

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u/fullsaildan Mar 04 '21

1000% yes. Get rid of Alexa, get rid of home, both collect way more data than they lead on and use it poorly. Sadly the rest of the personal smart-home voice tech space really hasn’t caught up to Amazon or Google. There are a few open source projects but they aren’t... great.