“I say ‘semi-committed’ as Google is the company it is because of advertising.”

It also ensured the groups were sufficiently large so that an individual user was one in a thousand.

With Topics, Google will monitor the websites users visit to learn about their interests.

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Chappell importantly noted that cookies were only part of the problem.

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