For anyone unaware, Google Chrome is currently rolling out an update that track your interests based on browsing history, then share them with 3rd party websites. The notification page makes it sound like they added a new privacy feature, but in actuality they automatically enrolled you into their tracking system and you have to go and manually opt out.
@malwaretech I'm the last person to recommend using Google Chrome, but that new topics feature isn't actually as bad as you might think. As far as I can tell, Google actually really tried to make it as privacy preserving as possible. Steve Gibson did a very thorough explanation of what it does and how it works on a recent episode of the Security Now podcast. It is worth a listen.
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