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Chrome’s ad-blocking plan could be a privacy disaster – and a reason to switch to Firefox....

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[-] [email protected] 83 points 2 years ago

Name a more iconic duo then Google and privacy disasters

[-] [email protected] 75 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[-] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago

google and dead projects

[-] [email protected] -2 points 2 years ago

YouTube and supporting content creators.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

The YouTuber would be better of if you donated 1 cent instead of watching an ad.

[-] [email protected] 57 points 2 years ago

This one and the Tux one have been getting a lot of use lately thanks to Chrome and Win11.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

I have embraced firefox as my primary browser now. I have a few remaining cookies on chrome that I have to re-establish in FF, and then I can't even imagine any reason I'd even need to use chrome again other than some obscure internal web app that I can spin up on a throwaway virtual machine.

[-] [email protected] 53 points 2 years ago

TL;DR... Google is limiting how many rules that extensions can have. Ad blockers need ~300k to run effectively, Google will limit them to 30k in Chrome citing "privacy and a light weight user experience" as the reason. This change will effectively make ad blockers in chrome all but useless. The solution will likely mean switching to more privacy focused browsers, such as Firefox.

[-] [email protected] 39 points 2 years ago

Brb, installing ad blocker part 1 through 10

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

So you just need to to some regex magic to reduce the amount of rules?

[-] [email protected] 30 points 2 years ago
[-] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

“Could” as if there’s a possibility it will respect your privacy lmfao

[-] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago

Google... could be a privacy disaster

astronaut-2 astronaut-1

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Google [...] a privacy disaster

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Google [...] a privacy disaster

Googles "piracy disaster"

Gets pinged for targeted marketing and also flagged for IP criminal law prosecution capitalist-laugh

[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

With that bs I have been changing everything away from Google. It takes a little work but I am looking the results so far.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

It made me install grapheneOS and I actually like my phone again.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Same here. I daresay my phone is now finally again as nice as in the early days of smart phones.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

Stop using Chrome then.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

Google *’s * plan could be a privacy disaster.

I thought it might read better not being so unnecessarily specific.

this post was submitted on 23 Nov 2023
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