Someone should create a leaderboard of websites sharing data with the most "partners", this week I saw someone on Mastodon posting a screenshot of a website sharing to 1700+ third-parties.
That sounds like they're using Admiral's sh!tty brokerage and anti-adblock thing, saw one site with over 1500 partners. Most difficult one to block because of how frequently they buy domains for adblock evasion...
One of these days I'm going to just blacklist the IP ranges of their google cloud fleet
Yeah, i think their terms of services are scripted so if they get more or less advertisers based on your country between other things, that way they can redirect the same page to everybody
The data broker deletion services all advertise deleting your info from 2-300 agents. Who the fuck are the other several thousand, what are they doing with the data, and how the fuck is any of this legal.
some websites require Chrome and don't work with anything else.
and then these college classes I'm taking, my laptop broke so they're loaning me a campus Chromebook. I'm like okay whatever. Of course just use it for school nothing else.
If you even remotely care about your privacy, get off of an ad-company's monopolistic browser. Firefox + uBlock Origin is the essentials for at least baseline privacy, then go up from there if you so choose.
Is the web site sharing with them or does it make you share with them so that your CPU does most of the processing and uploading to each advertising lead leech?
This would explain why we need more and more powerful/expensive phones just to keep browsing.
It's also gobs of telemtey and AB testing constantly watching how you're interacting with what's on the page and changing what you see to figure out what makes you engage more & longer. All that processing requires a lot of resources compared to sites that respect your privacy.