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Google Plans To Clean Up The Web With Chrome Ad

“Sridhar Ramaswamy, the executive in charge of Google’s ads, writes in a blog post that even ads “owned or served by Google” will be blocked on pages that don’t meet Chrome’s guidelines.” Uh huh… Google is an advertising company, and they make the Chrome browser, and they’re going to block ads. Anyone who thinks any of Google’s ads will be blocked is naïve.

Now the US government has money for me! At this rate I’ll be a billionaire by the end of the year!

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RT @McKelvie: Remember in the 90s to get online you had to murder a robot each time, and it would scream and scream until its death powered…

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I Think Feedly Is My Preferred Mobile Rss Reader For

I think @feedly is my preferred mobile RSS reader for reading large volumes of articles. I like the popularity scores and the way the “magazine” view makes popular stories fill the screen. Quick and easy to get through a large number of items without feeling like I’ve missed something important.

Google Following Your Offline Credit Card Spending To Tell Advertisers

“Put A and B together, and suddenly you have a much clearer picture to share with advertisers: Why yes, John Smith did see four ads for your coffee drink online yesterday, before spending exactly what one of those drinks costs at a location of yours near his office. Congratulations, your ads work; spend more money advertising with us now, please.” So basically if you have Google’s location tracking enabled on your phone, they’re selling that information to their advertisers. Not creepy at all 🙄