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From: AJL <noemail@none.com>
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Subject: Re: Annoying news and ads from Google app
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2024 08:51:34 -0700
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On 12/10/2024 6:37 AM, Frank Slootweg wrote:
> AJL <noemail@none.com> wrote: [...]
>> Out of curiosity I installed the Google app on my Fire 8+ tablet
>> (Android fork OS) and the Discovery search page looks pretty much
>> the same as the Chrome browser. Google claims to make the articles
>> interesting to me by monitoring my usage. Scary for the paranoid,
>> huh.
>
> I had never used the 'Google' app, nor the 'Discover' part within
> Chrome. This thread triggered me to try the 'Google' app and the
> funny thing is that the kind of articles Google presents to me, seems
> to be largely, but not solely, based of my activity on *Microsoft*'s
> *MSN* in the *Edge* browser. So different company, different news
> platform and different app/browser, but they seem to be 'linked'
> anyway. *Double* scary for the paranoid! :-)

And I suspect things will only get worse (better?) with evolving AI...