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Google Chrome pushes ahead with targeted ads based on your browser history
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Good luck. I switched to Firefox months ago and couldn’t be happier.
I switched a few weeks ago, I have not been able to test it on a PC, but the Android app definitely feels slower than Chrome, Cromite and Vivaldi.
Enable Ublock origin. It'll be faster when it doesn't need to load ads.
It is enabled, I think the performance hit would come from Dark Reader... but it is a must have extension for me (the reason I dropped Chrome actually, since they ditched the ability to darken websites in recent chrome versions).
Switched? I've been using it since pre-1.0
I have chrome, but that's because my company's product uses it for our clients plugin. Only use it for work stuff.
Brave and Arc for me! F chrome ;)
Idk arc but brave is just a downstream of chromium with a little less Bs. We all know the discussion.
Brave is chrome with a fresh coat of paint
Maybe avoid software from an ad company?
Is there a lemmy sub for no shit sherlock? This post needs a link to that
have they not already been doing this ever since they created Chrome?
Yeah it honestly surprises me they haven't been doing this already. I mean at least on a smaller scale this has been Google's business model for a while now.
I had to read the whole article to get to this info: Depending on what Chrome version you're using, and whether you've been selected to start using Topics API, you can switch this functionality off and on by visiting chrome://settings/adPrivacy and/or chrome://settings/privacySandbox – cut'n'paste these URLs into your address bar to jump straight to the controls.
Or don’t use chrome at all.
Easier said than done sometimes. Google is already doing what Microsoft used to do. They’re locking G suite features to Chrome, and if your company uses G suite, you made find yourselves in Chrome just so a damn thing works.
My company uses G Suite extensively, and I exclusively use Firefox. I haven't found a single thing that doesn't work in Firefox thus far.
Some lawyer somewhere will wind up with a fat payday if some important feature of Gmail/Sheets/Docs gets locked to Chrome exclusively, as soon as anyone notices.
Unrelated to G Suite, Google search on mobile should work perfectly fine on Firefox, but Google has decided anyone not using chrome will get a "mobile" version of the site. There's an addon that fixes that by just changing the user-agent string.
Especially with some webapps too. My nas's only allows you to upload folders through chrome, completely unsupported on Firefox. They do however another service on a different site that does support folder upload on Firefox for some reason though. I don't get the disconnect.
I encounter a site that will only work in Chrome based browsers (or at least won't work in Firefox) about once a month. I've yet to encounter one that will only work in Chrome proper.
You can switch it now but obviously it's just a matter of time til you won't be allowed to.
This is why chrome is for work only. Firefox for everything else.
Nah, Firefox with UserAgent Switcher for work.
For me it's Chrome for work, because we're not allowed to install anything on our machines :(
Is there a portable firefox?
And also .... When you give users the choice to turn something on or off but don't tell them that the thing is on and also make it inconvenient for them to turn it off ....
... Most users won't turn it off.
It cant be compliant with gdrp
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Goddamn I won't be affected coz I am not using chrome. Sworry!
Do note that people will still use chrome and ignore the problems
If I use chrome I better get some Pepsi ads that incorporate the kinks I look up on e621
Does this apply to chromium?
This is a great reason to continually flush your browser