Google says they're working towards building a better, more private, and personalized advertising technology. I'm here to tell you that "private" and "personalized ads" are mutually exclusive. Google, the largest private surveillance organization is moving the burden of surveillance from their servers to your device. Here's everything you need to know and how we can fight back.

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Google evades taxes: https://www.theregister.com/2010/10/22/google_double_irish_tax_loophole/
Google placates anti-democratic regimes: https://theintercept.com/series/google-dragonfly-china/
Google violates human rights: https://www.digitaltrends.com/news/apple-amazon-sony-samsung-uighur-forced-labor-china/

Google Privacy Sandbox Topics API documentation: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/privacy-sandbox/topics/overview/
Google Privacy Sandbox Protected Audience API: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/privacy-sandbox/protected-audience/
Privacy Sandbox is being built into Android, too: https://blog.google/products/android/introducing-privacy-sandbox-android/

How to protect yourself from the "Privacy Sandbox": https://firefox.com

The antitrust trial against Google: https://www.npr.org/2023/09/12/1198558372/doj-google-monopoly-antitrust-trial-search-engine


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-- Chapters --
00:00 - Introduction
01:05 - The problem with Google
01:52 - A little history lesson
04:36 - Google's Privacy Sandbox
05:49 - What does Privacy Sandbox collect about you
07:00 - The reality about "Privacy Sandbox"
08:14 - Privacy Sandbox gets even worse...
09:19 - It's not entirely bad news
10:18 - This tech is unethical and needs to be dismantled
12:33 - What can be done

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