Google is weakening ad blockers as part of their MV3 extension standard and this will trickle down into all Chromium browsers. Built in ad blockers lack features compared to uBlock Origin as well.

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[+] -51 points 2 years ago (25 children)

Unfortunately, firefox is becoming just as bad as chrome.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (16 children)
  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    Mozilla is mostly funded by google. With the current cookie laws from the eu to try and stop user tracking, they developed a new solution together.

    Both chrome and firefox analyze your behaviour on your pc/phone/device. Then instead of giving websites the right ads, your browser tells every website you visit (with such ads) about you. You can google "privacy sandbox" if you'd like to know more.

    So you better not be gay in a place like iraq, and be in need of using your school's website on a personal computer.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (13 children)

    Mozilla is now focusing on the advertising business.

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago (12 children)

    To reduce reliance on Google... With the goal to change how advertising works, less annoying, less asshole ads would benefit everyone.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago* (11 children)

    It's not my browser's job to report to advertisers, period.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago (10 children)

    Its not doing that, you can use a fork if you want, or, and that would be the important part, put a condom over your internet cable before it enters the router, safety first.

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  • [+] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (6 children)
  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    The data doesn't go to the advertiser - it's anonymized, encrypted, and sent to an aggregation service. The data isn't about you personally.

    This is a much better solution than what's used for advertising today.

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  • [+] 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)
  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    The advertiser doesn't get your data directly. The data is aggregated using differential privacy so it's impossible for them to see any individual's data.

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  • [+] -1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 child)
  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago

    Would you rather pay for every site you use? Not every site can afford to have someone else cover the cost for you (which is how Lemmy servers are ran for example), and the only other business models that have worked online are either running ads, or getting users to pay for access.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Unfortunately, your statement probably only deserves bothsides.jxl. Please attempt to honestly and objectively compare things, despite the personal inconvenience.

    They make mistakes, but Firefox and Mozilla are obviously nowhere near as fucked up as Chrome and Google by any measure. And Firefox would only improve if people stopped running back to Chrome when something was not perfect.

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  • [+] -7 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Unfortunate that people are fooled by Mozilla's pretend privacy promises.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    It's not like we have great options here. Safari isn't supported on Windows or Linux. Opera has its own issues (like predatory loan apps) even if you're willing to pay for it. Crossing my fingers that Ladybird will work out, but it has a long way to go (though it did better than I thought it would when I tried it a few months back). Everything else is some variant of Chrome.

    If you need to be on the web at all, Firefox still seems like the best of the shit pile.

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