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slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
This is not to say that there aren't problems in the Topics API! Or that the folks who shipped it were fully open to feedback (a lot of good done, but also some fingers in ears). But as with Apple's own privacy-api-cum-tracking-vector, we can expect the first-pass issues to get fixed.
But *both* Google and Apple's efforts are mostly marketing; band-aids to distract from the lack of effective privacy legislation that would get at the real issue: huge pools of data at rest.