<p>EFF&#39;s &quot;privacy badger&quot; extension today expanded its effect on the Google &quot;Ad Sandbox&quot; to disable not just Topics (the worst of Ad Sandbox&#39;s features so far) but also the other two features— including &quot;Ad Measurement&quot;, a feature that Apple copied a couple years back and Firefox adopted as an &quot;experiment&quot; this month.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/@eff/112831156838249955" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mastodon.social/@eff/112831156</span><span class="invisible">838249955</span></a></p><p>The EFF here succinctly argues why all of these ad features should not be running on your computer:</p>

The can't be without the true other

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@film_girl" class="u-url mention">@<span>film_girl</span></a></span> I heard about it for the first time yesterday when I listened to episode 365 of the <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://zeppelin.flights/@incomparable" class="u-url mention">@<span>incomparable</span></a></span> during which it was added to the Television Hall of Fame by <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@djloehr" class="u-url mention">@<span>djloehr</span></a></span>. I&#39;ll take that as a sign</p>

Need male wife (husband?)

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@kev" class="u-url mention">@<span>kev</span></a></span> AFAIK, isn’t omg.lol doing that? I personally don’t see the point mostly because I can then pay for a managed instance and get ownership of the domain.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.online/@danirabbit" class="u-url mention">@<span>danirabbit</span></a></span> <br />Fortunately, I was born in a place where racism is less. I&#39;m new to the world outside of Iran, so it&#39;s probably natural that I don&#39;t understand these things. <br />In any case, I hope that racism and fascism will be destroyed everywhere in the world.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@kev" class="u-url mention">@<span>kev</span></a></span> <br />I think you need to define what engagement you seek. Engaging can be reading interesting stuff but not sharing and commenting. I believe that passive engagement is almost always way higher than active engagement.<br />Passive engagement also avoids all the toxic aspects of active engagement.<br />But there is also value in active engagement. To seek to increase that I think you need a very defined domain (could be Star Wars 1 or East high school 2005 graduates or...).</p><p>Small active is hard I think.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@kev" class="u-url mention">@<span>kev</span></a></span> yes, depending on pricing.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://khiar.net/@drcode" class="u-url mention">@<span>drcode</span></a></span> because these are nationalist dog whistles</p>