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teft ( teft@startrek.website )  to Technology · 3 years ago

Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome

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teft ( teft@startrek.website )  to Technology · 3 years ago
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Chrome now directly tracks users, generates a "topic" list it shares with advertisers.
  • TheTimeKnife ( TheTimeKnife@beehaw.org ) 
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    Hope other browser developers realize chromium is a ticking time bomb. I’ve used firefox for over 15 years and see no reason to change with the current landscape of browsers being so reliant on google .

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      Seriously… I’ve never once strayed from Firefox since its release.
      I’m forced to use chrome for work and it is crap.

      I guess that using safari on iOS devices is one exception, and it isn’t too bad.

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        I’ve been using Firefox since it was called Phoenix. Mozilla, for all it’s flaws, has been our first and only line of defense for an open web for so long.

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          I think I started using it in the 1.x times. I remember all the flaws it’s had since. I’ve given lots of other browsers a try in the meantime but none come close to Firefox. They might be good enough for others but for power users Firefox is the way to go.

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          Damn… I think I came on a bit later than that. I don’t recognize the icon of Phoenix so I doubt I made the switch that early on!

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        Okay, but change to what then? All the other options are just Chrome, Safari, and Firefox again.

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            they are still based on Chrome or Firefox doesn’t really matter, since they remove the undesirable parts of them.

            Actually it does matter, since Google are killing off the ability for ad blockers to work with a new manifest specification in Chromium.

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            In the case of Brave and Vivaldi, they add their own undesirable parts (Brave adds crypto bullshit and Vivaldi is closed-source, so $DEITY knows what they’re adding).

            Librewolf is open and doesn’t contribute to the Chromium monoculture; so it’s the best option

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            Your link doesn’t seem to support your statement. Do you mean the part that advocates “turn on by default” tools to amplify factual information over disinformation? Because “turn on by default” implies an off switch.

            It’s not possible for search engines to make zero decisions about what to prioritize in results, anyway. How would you prefer they sort the absurd quantity of results? Especially now SEO listicles try to drown everything else out?

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      Seemingly my Google pixel phone has stopped connecting to the Internet with other browsers. So I’m stuck using Google Chrome on it. 😠

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        I have a pixel 5a and haven’t had that problem, currently using Fennec (firefox fork).

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