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Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome (arstechnica.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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If you can, use Firefox.

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[–] [email protected] 84 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Ditto. The security department made the push because too many people were installing unapproved addons like ublock. They are mandating chrome, "for security". LMAO

The irony is that people are signing into chrome with personal gmail and leaking stuff.

[–] [email protected] 94 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

You can lockdown user addons in both chrome and firefox via GPO. You can also auto install them with the same policies if you like. Both browsers have enterpise admx files available.

Your security department sounds like they are bad at their jobs.

[–] [email protected] 84 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Your security department sounds like they are bad at their jobs.

First time in corporate?

[–] [email protected] 32 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Nah. I work in the field.

Im well aware of bad security teams. Looks like they got one.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Came here to say the exact same thing. It really is amazing to me just how many IT professionals are bad at their jobs.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 10 months ago

Tech is a boogie man to many executypes. I've seen plenty of IT pros that were in over their head but smooth enough con men. If they keep coming up with things to throw money at/trim money out of convincingly they have long and successful careers.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

I don't think it's worse than any other office job.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Meanwhile, I'm over here unable to find an IT job :')

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

When I lost my job over the summer I put my resume on dice and immediately had 3-4 guys with Indian accents calling me every day. I found a new job within a week. I still get emails and texts though, can't put the genie back in the bottle

[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

uBlock Origin is pretty much approved by Mozilla and ads are a big attack vector while Chrome is spyware.

If they use Windows, you can use Firefox Portable of PortableApps.