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From: Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android
Subject: Re: Annoying news and ads from Google app
Date: 10 Dec 2024 13:37:05 GMT
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AJL <noemail@none.com> wrote:
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> 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! :-)

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