What is Google up to?

[impar]

Greetings!

New details emerge about Google’s payments to link to French news sites
The deal could become a template across Europe and perhaps around the world.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/202 ... ews-sites/

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Google will pay €1.1 million for misleading users with hotel ratings in France

https://www.neowin.net/news/google-will ... -in-france

US should copy Australia - and force Google to pay for news
Microsoft’s idea

Software King of the World Microsoft has said the USA should copy Australia's plan to force Google and Facebook to pay for links to news content.
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https://www.fudzilla.com/news/52363-us- ... y-for-news

[impar]

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Google fires Margaret Mitchell, co-lead of its Ethical AI team
Google has been criticized for silencing voices it doesn't want to hear

https://www.techspot.com/news/88692-goo ... al-ai.html

[impar]

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Google to change AI ethics procedures

https://www.fudzilla.com/news/ai/52428- ... procedures

Google Photos High Quality might not be near-identical to original

https://www.slashgear.com/google-photos ... -28661674/

^^^^But it was free!

[impar]

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Google says it will stop tracking you on the web via ads next year

https://www.neowin.net/news/google-says ... next-year/

Google promises to stop selling your browsing history to advertisers
FLoC-based advertising puts users in groups so the group is targeted rather than the individual

https://www.techspot.com/news/88805-goo ... isers.html

Google claims it will stop tracking individual users for ads
Google says anonymized, group-based interest tracking will be good enough.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/03 ... s-for-ads/

Google promises it won’t just keep tracking you after replacing cookies
Google says it wants a ‘privacy-first web’

https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/3/22310 ... cy-sandbox

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Sounds hard to believe - and it's not like it's an easy thing to prove anyway ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Tabajara]

Sounds hard to believe - and it's not like it's an easy thing to prove anyway ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I think it might happen because advertisers don't go after something very specific, but after some defined demographics, like 15-35 year old gamers. At a story I've read Google says the new method gave them 95% of the income of the old one. If Google isn't losing much money, they might just do it. The problem: will other advertisement companies be able to do the same after cookies are outlawed?