Xander Plooy

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Product Owner by day, big cat fan by — actually, all the time. Donate now at https://tats4cats.ink/donate.html to save big cats!

just got that sweet sweet privacy-invading Chrome update on my work computer ✨👌🏼

PSA: once you see this on opening Chrome after an update, to turn it off, run-don’t-walk to Settings → Privacy and security → Ads privacy and then go into all 3 sub-options (Ad topics, Site-suggested ads, and Ad measurement) and disable them all individually 🤪

this is also a great opportunity for organisations to really scrutinise their choice of Chrome as the default/“standard” browser surely 🤔🏢

(for those not in the know: the real-world translation of Google’s “more choice over the ads you see” messaging is actually their new deeply-integrated user profiling and tracking ad platform built into Chrome that “will track the web pages you visit and generate a list of advertising topics that it will share with web pages” by default) 👀😕 via https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/09/googles-widely-opposed-ad-platform-the-privacy-sandbox-launches-in-chrome/

Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome

Chrome now directly tracks users, generates a “topic” list it shares with advertisers.

Ars Technica
Not only is it Caturday 😺 but specifically, it’s #InternationalTigerDay! If you want to help save these amazing big cats, you can donate to the International #Tiger Project Australia (tax deductible ≥AUD$2) and together we can give #tigers an incrrrredible future! 🐯🐾🌟 https://www.tiger.org.au/donate/
Don't let extinction be their future

It’s hard to imagine which would hurt more - the torn flesh, the fractured bone or the anguish of knowing you couldn’t reach your two young cubs; alone, hungry and unprotected. 

followed an embedded Twitter image link in a tech news article and was forced through this 2FA removal journey. what kind of a fucking joke has that website become under the Chief Buffoon 👀😕