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Google Chrome pushes ahead with targeted ads based on your browser history
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this post was submitted on 06 Sep 2023
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Someone needs to make an extension that googles random stuff all the time and floods ones history with so much background noise that the history becomes useless.
That would be an ecological disaster (figuratively, but still), since all those requests and processor cycles have a cost
What's the watts-per-search of google?
Here's a lead
https://fullfact.org/environment/google-search/