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		l72 on Sept 11, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google Chrome just rolled out a new way to track y... If the topics API is really just returning a list of things the user is interested in, like: `2: 'Arts & Entertainment/Acting & Theater', 3: 'Arts & Entertainment/Comics', ... 132: 'Computers & Electronics/Consumer Electronics/Home Theater Systems', ... 208: 'Home & Garden/Gardening', ...` why not just have a simple survey and let the user pick or rate what they are interested in? Why the need to have the web browser actually track everything?

l72 on Sept 11, 2023 [–]

Also, there should be a permission API around this for each website (like camera/microphone), that explicitly states why the website is requesting this information and what information the browser will return to the website.

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