C_NCENTRATE 962: Google diet, superforecasters, spirituality app rise, dead superbugs, laser scarecrows... +++
Welcome to 2024; it’s great to be 100% with it, refreshed, and our best selves…right?! 2024 is the year that C_NCENTRATE, should everything go well, hit 1,000 issues. For context, that’s over ten years of newsletters or all the words in the Harry Potter books. There’s even a new section starting this week! Expect significant changes this year, which begins right now with Google…
Google is trying to lose a few pounds by shedding all cookies, the small files that collect analytic data to track your/someone’s online activity and provide personalised advertisements. The irony of me writing this after literally just being served an ad for tampons in 2024 is not lost on me, either. Is it just me, or does the YouTube ad experience utterly suck these days? Anyway, back to the cookies. Google is testing out its cookie-free future on 1% of Chrome...