so it looks like in a few days, chrome 115 will ship with the "topics api", a very cool feature where chrome will now infer what kinds of things you're interested in, so that your browser can tell websites what kind of ads to show you. this is part of what google is calling the "privacy sandbox", i guess because it is technically more private than every website just sharing the same tracking cookie
mozilla and apple have both politely declined to implement this feature on the grounds that it is fucking bananas, naturally, but chrome can throw its weight around however it wants so i guess "target me with these ads, daddy" is just part of the web now
