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Google what the hell is this? (infosec.pub)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by guynamedzero@piefed.zeromedia.vip to c/privacy@lemmy.world

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For context, this popped up as I went to the youtube homepage. This is absurd. Of course, I have uBlock Origin, so it doesn't matter to me regardless, but there's no way to say no.

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[–] Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

That's Google's standard and has been for a long time on their services, most Androids and Windows. Saying no to personalised ads doesn't mean you're saying no to ads, it means getting ads that aren't filtered to the genre you respond to. If you use a stock-OS Android it might be worth deleting your ad profile in the Play Store app every now and then.

Fun fact, if you don't give them a locale (for example, when setting up spyware such as Win11, for language and keyboard choose global, and for timezone choose UTC) they can't give you a large portion of their bloat.