Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome::Chrome now directly tracks users, generates a “topic” list it shares with advertisers.
Well that explains why I’m seeing full page popups saying I need to disable my adblocker on certain sites…
Okay… I’ve resisted long enough. I’ll make the switch to Firefox tonight
I switched a while back for the same reason, in a completely different scenario. Google is playing themselves.
I only use chrome for a couple of extensions that aren’t available for firefox. I should probably reach out to those companies and request that they get a firefox extension working.
Firefox is working to bring chrome extensions to FF.
Make sure to use uBlock origin once you switch.
Yup. Gang gang
uBlock Origin and Privacy Badger should be the first addons you install.
Also consider the Multi-Account Containers addon. It loads certain domains in their own tabs and isolates them from others.
This is just the basics, there’s a deep rabbit hole for privacy of you’re interested and lots of interesting extensions for maximum control (cookie auto-deleters, Matrix, JavaScript disablers, anti-fingerprinting, scrubbers etc.) Firefox itself comes with a lot of privacy-related stuff built-in nowadays.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Unlike the glitzy front-page Google blog post that the redesign got, the big ad platform launch announcement is tucked away on the privacysandbox.com page.
The blog post says the ad platform is hitting “general availability” today, meaning it has rolled out to most Chrome users.
This has been a long time coming, with the APIs rolling out about a month ago and a million incremental steps in the beta and dev builds, but now the deed is finally done.
Users should see a pop-up when they start up Chrome soon, informing them that an “ad privacy” feature has been rolled out to them and enabled.
That’s actually what started this whole process: Apple dealt a giant blow to Google’s core revenue stream when it blocked third-party cookies in Safari in 2020.
Google says it will block third-party cookies in the second half of 2024—presumably after it makes sure the “Privacy Sandbox” will allow it to keep its profits up.
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oof, that’s just sad. i hope people switch, firefox is actually not that bad these days
Firefox ftw
Will this solely be a Chrome “feature” or will it get into Chromium and eventually Edge?
Vivaldi doesn’t (and won’t) have it.
