Comment by scarface_74
1 year ago
The entire idea behind “privacy sandbox” is to create a profile of you for advertising based on your browsing history and the profile is created by Chrome - without being logged in and without cookies.
https://privacysandbox.com/intl/en_us/
More specifically the Topics API
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Topics_API
It’s opposed by both Mozilla and Apple and is only supported by Google/Chrome.
Interesting. So the browser knows your browsing history like every browser does, but it uses it to share some distilled data. Yeah, I definitely don't want that. Looks like I already totally disabled it though, so I'm good I guess.
Privacy and security > Ad privacy
Ad topics: Generates a list of your interests based on your browsing behavior.
Site-suggested ads: Allows advertisers to retarget you based on your interactions.
Ad measurement: Enables advertisers to assess ad performance.
Toggle each of these settings to "Off" to disable them.
Yep.
And I slightly misspoke. I said it was only supported by Chrome. More accurately, it is supported by Chrome and some Chromium based browsers.