Google Privacy Sandbox Options

[Christian J]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy_Sandbox

To me it sounds like the browser will run preinstalled spyware that profiles the user and displays ads, but without sending individual user data back to Google (we promise). Unlike javascript - that can also spy on the user and display ads - I assume Privacy Sandbox can't be disabled easily.

"In addition, with the launch of the Chrome 115 release in July, Google is making Privacy Sandbox’s relevance and measurement APIs generally available to all Chrome users, making it easy for developers to test these APIs with live traffic.
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It’s worth noting that today, users can already turn on the Privacy Sandbox trials in Chrome. The APIs have been available for testing since the launch of the Chrome 101 beta."
https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/18/google-wi...p/?guccounter=1

[Jason Knight]

My takeaway is that it's just more hoodoo-voodoo marketing scam BS. I mean it seems the entire point of it is to make advertisers lives easier whilst attempting to silence security concerns with marketspeak double-talk and wishful thinking.

Everything I've read on the topic is overburdened with glittering generalities, card stacking, transfer, and high sounding words devoid of actual meaning, reason, or even fact.

I mean seriously, they're trying to say they're respecting our privacy by creating a new means of tracking people, so that they aren't tracking people? Yeah.

If anything it's just more proof that advertisers are losing their minds as the effectiveness and efficacy of advertising continues to spiral down the drain. Reminds me of a Cracked video from a decade ago about the topic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcGVbo57bAU

Which made me laugh for the simple fact that when Cracked is the voice of reason in the room, there's something WRONG with this world.