• Olgratin_Magmatoe@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Not necessarily. They still get money from selling user data. So they likely still care about losing users who use adblocking to at least some degree.

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      3 months ago

      Google doesn’t sell user data, they sell user eyeballs. There’s no incentive for Google to sell user data since they’re an ad company and the only people who would buy the data are competitors.

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      3 months ago

      Good point, but also it’s not that they will lose all of the user data they sell if people switch off Chrome, just the parts that chrome collects.

      If they were blocking ublock users from accessing any google products then it would be purely a ‘we only care about ad revenue’

      It would be very interesting to see the internal data they use to make these decisions, but also knowing tech these decisions were probably made by a series of mid level managers sufficiently sucking the air out of the room until a critical mass was hit to make this happen

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        3 months ago

        They absolutely also get data through means other than their browser. But they data they get off of the browser directly is probably a shit load.

        but also knowing tech these decisions were probably made by a series of mid level managers sufficiently sucking the air out of the room until a critical mass was hit to make this happen

        1000%

        I’m sure a bunch of bean counters were involved as well.