"Tracking Protection" just means they are protecting their exclusivity in tracking you.
this post was submitted on 05 Jan 2024
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Yep
On one hand, probably an antitrust issue. On the other hand, not sure how popular ensuring a diverse market in tracking tools would be.
"Tracking protection" sounds more like "alternative tracking."
Google's Privacy Sandbox initiative, just like its name implies, was designed to be an alternative to cookies that will allow advertisers to serve users ads while also protecting their privacy. It assigns users to groups according to their interests, based on their recent browsing activities, and advertisers can use that information to match them with relevant ads.
Lot of time, money, and effort toward a moderate improvement rather than just not perceiving users as products. But...improvement is improvement.
What's the downside?
Users are products. That will only change if people become a lot happier with paying for services.
No argument here. There's a global paradigm shift needed to break out of that mindset should it even be possible, but it still boggles my mind in the meantime the resources invested in sustaining this ecosystem.
The downside is it makes Google the de facto owner of all of your online information. You could never use a Google product, but because they have such a large market share they'll essentially force every site and platform to use their solution.
Edge has done this by default since release, with an option to be more strict in what it blocks
Pretty much every browser on the planet other than Chrome has been doing this for years.
"One of the first" my ass
Did they also finally fix google drive? Last time I needed something from a shared drive I needed to enable a third party cookie exemption for that.