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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

"...and is now banned in the EU."

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (7 children)

The main reason I haven't switch to Firefox is that it doesn't have a "tab group" feature nearly as functional, polishedg and usable as Chrome's.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago

You have your priorities defined. Well done.

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 10 months ago (9 children)

We're in a lose/lose scenario here. Google has been inserting ad-tracking and soon will be nuking ad-blockers.

Then you've got Firefox wanting to implement AI soon at the cost of employees.

Is there really anywhere else we can go before both of their shit hits the fan?

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[+] [email protected] -9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I’m really confused, everyone seems pissed about this, but if you understand what they are up to, it actually is a very privacy focused way to allow for interest based ads. Like I get if you understand that and feel like all interest based ads are evil, sure. But at the same time the ‘free web’ is built on advertising. Nobody is offering an alternative.

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[+] [email protected] -14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

Seems like a quick hop to chrome://flags allows one to disable this. chrome://flags/#privacy-sandbox-ads-apis

Ads aren't evil though. They are the main method of making people know about new things. Intrusive and privacy-defeating tracking is.

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[+] [email protected] -21 points 10 months ago (8 children)

I love Firefox when it works, but half the time it can't access any sites while Chrome does. It's like Firefox can't see the network.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Netscape Navigator has the same issue!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I think that depends heavily on the pages one might frequent.

Most of the time i comfortably get by using netsurf...

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