New Google ad tracking policy a ‘Pandora’s box’ for privacy, experts warn

Profits, as the article points out, are certainly a factor, but...politics makes strange bedfellows.

 

Honestly, 99% users do not care about privacy or tracking, unless media makes it a thing for a day or so. And those who do, know how to protect themselves. People I know do not even update phones OS, because it is inconvenient.

 

Man do I understand what you are saying here!!

 

I honestly think that Google's Privacy Sandbox wasn't a bad idea, except for the tracking part. So why not give users an option to tell what their interests are, so that they won't see any irrelevant ads. And make these ads static, with no animation and place them on positions that aren't annoying, so not like on Yahoo Finance. And stop the tracking, problem solved, you wouldn't even need adblockers anymore. And no more dumb cookie privacy pop ups!