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haha, np! i did a flurry of SO answering ages ago and then just kind of lost interest, but i'm glad the answers are still helpful

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

i love this because firing the bfg at the floor or ceiling to force the tracers to go off instantly is in fact a minor exploit you can do in a port with vertical mouselook

from every description of it it sounds like a massive honeypot for all the normies who just want to tweet at angelina jolie and talk about football scores. excellent. give them all their own website and a little hamster water bottle dripfeed of vapid nothings from celebrities