PSA: Google has now begun to roll-out the Ad Topics "feature" onto Android itself. It's not just in Chrome you have to disable the settings. Please #Boost to spread awareness.
If you didn't get the pop-up screen on your Android device (it'll look like the first two screenshots), to opt-out of these settings:
Go to your device Settings
Press on "Google"
Press on "Ads"While you're here, press on the "Delete Advertising ID" button and delete it
Press on "Ad Privacy"
Review: "Ad Topics", "App-suggested ads", and "App Measurement". Make sure they are all labelled as "OFF". (This page will look like the third screenshot.)
If you don't see "Ad Privacy" in Step 4 then it means that it hasn't been rolled out to you yet. You might need to wait and check back in a couple of days to see if/when it has been implemented to disable these settings.
@FalconMarkSix
Post criticizing Google illustrated by images in WebP format… so contradictory 😏
@m0xee @FalconMarkSix the format is open and supported by others too AFAIK
@rugk @FalconMarkSix
It is, but as much as Chrome is — you can have your own implementation, but if it does something differently, no one will use it as it won't be backed by company like Google. So you are free to reimplement it, but do things exactly how G does them.
It also offers only marginal advantages, while making implementing new browsers harder — if you want to support WebP. Of course you can rely on Google's implementation — but that gives you extra attack surface as we now know.
@rugk @FalconMarkSix
But it was just a pun anyway — definitely not the right thread to tell people about that too, original post already puts Google in an unfavourable light. Enough of them for today 😅