Google Proposes New System for Targeted Online Advertising

Google is overhauling its plans for targeted online advertising after pushback from privacy advocates, aiming to give marketers less-granular information about web users than under the tech giant’s initial proposal. The Alphabet Inc. unit said that the new system it is proposing, Topics, would allow web advertisers to target broad categories of users — those interested in “fitness” or “travel,” for example — instead.