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- Hacker News
- They're probably tracking click throughs and what placement you saw, what AB tests were visible, etc.by leros
- My guess is to combat scrapers. They have been suing companies that scrape Google lately (they lost a recent one)by AznHisoka
- My advice is: switch to Brave and de-Google your life.
If you're interested in privacy and data sovereignty: https://ownyourdatamp.substack.com/ + https://www.meishiapp.com/
by marcoparisi - I encountered that on Firefox (with privacy setting both on strict, and I think also on default protection last time I encountered that) both on Android and desktop, and also Safari (iOS). Not sure about Chrome though.by exploraz
- More recent discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49506219by exploraz