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Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome (arstechnica.com)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 77 points 2 years ago (2 children)

So my takeaway from this is to never use Chrome again? Gotcha.

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  • [–] 29 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    If everyone who said they were going to do this actually did this, Chrome wouldn't do this, if that makes sense.

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

    Or, idk, regulators could like, do their jobs.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Unfortunately, if the government had one single source to secretly control/monitor the world wide web from then they would gladly stand back and do nothing.

    Having said that, I truly hope I'm wrong. And they are probably already doing what I described upstream from the browser anyways.

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

    I don't think I've used Google Chrome itself for over 3 years now (excluding on other people's devices). I don't plan to ever use it again either.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    At one point I was switching back and forth, because I'd see a general decline in Firefox for some reason. I don't know if it was just getting overloaded with extensions that were hitting its performance or if my machine itself was having problems or if Firefox's performance was shit for awhile, but I'd switch from Firefox to Chrome, try going back to Firefox, then back to Chrome, but I've been with Firefox for a good few years now without issue. The browser "market" is even crowded now, there's no reason to go back to Chrome, since there's so many other choices out there (though avoiding Chromium might be a little bit trickier).

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