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Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome (arstechnica.com)
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[โ€“] Spotlight7573@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's in Chromium, the other browsers have just disabled/patched it out: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/refs/heads/main/components/privacy_sandbox/privacy_sandbox_prefs.h

// Un-synced boolean pref indicating if Topics API is enabled.

inline constexpr char kPrivacySandboxM1TopicsEnabled[] = "privacy_sandbox.m1.topics_enabled";`

e.g. Vivaldi:

https://vivaldi.com/blog/technology/heads-up-googles-going-off-topics-again/