Google did it again.

  • DarienGS@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I read this article from top to bottom and didn’t find a clear explanation of why you should disable this feature.

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      1 year ago

      It’s an underhanded way of implementing a browser supported foolproof adblock detector. Even its stated goal of “give advertisers a unified, browser backed, ‘private’ way of tracking you for advertising” isn’t especially appealing or useful when you get something better than that from adblock anyway. Turning it off will be reflected in telemetry sites gather about feature availability and hopefully low adoption numbers discourage them from taking advantage of this “feature”.