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		ummonk on Sept 20, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Explanation of the state of uBlock Origin and othe... Were they tracking smart tv usage or were smart tv manufacturers using google apis to store their tracking data?

zie on Sept 20, 2019 [–]

Both it seems:

"The most prevalent tracker, Google's doubleclick.net, showed up in 975 of the top 1,000 Roku channels, with Google analytics trackers showing up in 360, the researchers found." - https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/09/studies-google-n...

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