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Location tracking of phones is out of control. Here’s how to fight back.(arstechnica.com)

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Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee
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I wouldn’t think thats how they are splitting it up … Basically just affecting market shares of some markets (targeted ads being one of them + the ecosystem pushing you into it).

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Scolding7300@lemmy.world
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I thought chrome, yt, search, gmail/docs, android, etc. would all be separate entities, making them less willing to share data for financial reasons

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Hm, yes, but their entire goal is to expand advertising - more volume is good for all these same alphabet entities, even if they “lose” (not really) something on pricing.

Also I hope the search engine somehow gets split up too.

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