I’m fucking done with Chrome. Fuck this.
It was never great. The only use for chrome was to load the two or three sites that would only load in chrome and then ignore it.
I love how they position it as a privacy feature, and then fail to explain how it does anything to increase privacy.
Isn’t that false advertising? This literally does nothing for your actual privacy.
The topics become a super valuable fingerprinting metric, as well as continuing a form of cross site tracking now that 3rd party cookies are taken more seriously
Sure it does… It invades your privacy.
Firefox is for people with big cocks
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And girls too.
And girls with big cocks.
Sup
Girls are people too!
But i am nyot person but cat girl nyaaaa
I can say with great confidence that people with small members also use it.
The fact that they want you to do this again every 4 weeks is downright laughable.
The fact that anyone in /privacy/ uses any google products or services is also quite laughable.
Nice gatekeeping bro, keep it up
I don’t think that word means what you think it means
What does it mean then, if not implying that you’re not a real Privacy user or cannot be interested in improving your privacy situation if you use Google products?
That’s like worrying about privacy while using Facebook and tiktok. Moreover, accessing all of your personal information on a device created by Facebook.
I mean, you’ve got to start somewhere.
I honestly, i think it’s the truth. You can’t be a privacy enthusiast if you use google products. It’s the antithesis of privacy.
What about someone who has been slowly degoogling themselves but isn’t all the way there yet?
On that note, any suggestions for a privacy-friendlier alternative for my favorite but most difficult-to-replace Google service, location history?
I think mosquito does location history. But it’s usually self hosted.
It says that they’re auto deleted, there’s no action needed every 4 week by the user.
It will be more often than that. The ad topics will be generated in a rolling fashion so expirations will be staggered.
I use Opera. Built-in ad/tracker blocker, cookie destroyer, free vpn and much more features. All chrome extensions work with opera.
Wut! Damn, can’t have anything good anymore these days… Thanks for the info. Now I’m sad.
I know… I was saddened to find this out.
The old Opera versions using the Presto engine were truly amazing. Now they’re just a Chromium skin, just like Vivaldi, Brave and others, adding more and more crap like crypto wallets and other shady stuff.
Back then they were important to keep the web’s standards high and corporations in check and compatible to each other. Big props to the original Opera.
Vivaldi is a chromium browser from the OG opera guys I believe.
I deleted Chrome a couple of months ago. Haven’t missed it in the slightest.
Imagine if Firefox implemented this and we don’t have any other browser to use without ads.
How can I hide these images?
They are getting very obnoxious.
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block everyone who uses them, just takes a second
Yeah, but I’d like the images to be hidden by default.
It’s a pretty simple concept, lol.
Agreed
Maybe try a different instance? I’m on kbin and all I see by default is a url to the image.
You’ll have to block the user. Unfortunately thats the only way
Dang. It would be nice if there was a setting to hide images by default, lol.
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Yea too much work mate and what if you have to unblock a domain out of million domains in the host file. Fk that
How long do you think it would take for a new browser to emerge that doesn’t block ad blockers?
Looking at the modding community, about 24 hours max
Wow, this comment section is a giant echo chamber. Really, guys?
Yes, Google and Chrome are dumpster fires for privacy. But this is at least inching in the right direction, however small. Now the next time you shop for a present for your girlfriend on Valentine’s Day, you can prevent yourself from getting underwear ads for the next month.
Also, if this is your last straw… you’ve had your head in the sand for over a decade. Google has been watching every single thing you do, categorizing it, and selling ad placement for that topic to the highest bidder ever since ads became their primary business model. Chrome just made it easier to do that.
I ditched Chrome a short while ago due to its poor memory management and its inexplicable inability to handle certain sites that Edge can somehow handle fine for a third of the RAM hit. This wouldn’t have been my deal breaker.
I have 4 different browsers installed, I use Chrome for work activities, as it supports the Outlook and Teams PWA’s and I’m not browsing ad-ridden sites. I use qutebrowser for personal stuff/bookmarks, and Firefox for uh, video browsing.
I’d recommend using Edge for work. The Office integrations are impressive and make work that much more streamlined.
On linux? No thanks.
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Fuck no. Sounds like a great reason to avoid it. Do one thing and do it well is the correct way to paradigm software design.
No it’s not. Where is the “opt out, don’t track me” option? This isn’t any better. This is a just asking how you would like your toppings on your shit sandwich. They don’t give a fuck about us or you.
This isn’t any better.
What? Before, for many, many years, they didn’t even ask how you would like your toppings on your shit sandwich and you happily gobbled it up. They’re giving you the option to opt out of some topics, and NOW you’re pissed? It may not be a privacy slam-dunk (why are you using Chrome, anyway?), but it’s better than the nothing that existed before.
Of course Google doesn’t care. They’re not going to give you an opt-out option. They’re an ad company, and their whole business is knowing your interests to get you to buy from advertisers. The search engine is just to get you in the door. The moment you press enter, they’re selling you something.
They started off as a search engine with the motto “don’t be evil”. Let’s get our facts straight before you try to talk me down like I don’t know anything.
Fuck their ads and fuck whatever this monster is. I opt out by making sure my security settings are so high most pages won’t load until I manually configure what I allow. Everyone has the option to do this but it’s a massive pain in the ass so I get it. It doesn’t mean we all need to passively accept getting fucked.
They started off as a search engine with the motto “don’t be evil”. Let’s get our facts straight before you try to talk me down like I don’t know anything.
Google was selling ads about 4 years before their IPO when the “Don’t Be Evil” motto was first revealed to the public. There is a “History of Google” page on Wikipedia if you want to brush up on the facts and timeline.
The fact remains that they’re now an advertising company. This was their monetization model and how they’ve amassed 90%+ of their wealth.
You can fiddle with your security however you want. I settle for “good enough” with things that aren’t Chrome, because my time isn’t worth analyzing each individual cookie on a page to get the info I am looking for. Firefox and uBlock Origin are a good enough layer of protection.
That doesn’t make them an advertising company. It was a search engine that sold ads to gain monetization. However at this point we are just splitting hairs over perspective so I’ll bury the hatchet there.
I can and I do encourage EVERYONE to fiddle with their security, not just because of Google but because eventually you’re going to stumble into some shitty website by accident and that fucker is going to pop you with a some random JavaScript that you already told your browser is totally fine to run automatically.
There is way more at stake here than a couple of tracking cookies, but it starts there. They need the permission to read, track and modify files on your machine in order to “sell” you the best advertisements. This means always having JavaScript turned on as well as allowing permissions which often are automatically accepted. This opens people up to a massive security risk with no reward. Google gets to walk away smiling while you’re scraping viruses and malware off your machines left and right.They aren’t here to educate or give you a choice, they just send you along after you pass GO and they get to collect the $200.
I’m sorry but no, it’s not okay to try to convince the public this is a good thing. I’d wager Google spent a pretty penny trying to figure out a way to get people like you to agree that isn’t so terrible when it’s so obvious what they are doing is absolutely unacceptable.
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Nothing about that is in defence of Google.
Attacking ignorance isn’t the same as defending evil.
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This is one of those situations where people are mad at the right person for the wrong reasons and I never know how to respond. I hate misinformation, so I lean towards wanting to try and point out what’s wrong, but long-form nuanced explanations don’t fit well with the situation and will change zero minds so why bother? At least there’s some people switching to Firefox as a result, I guess.
With both Chrome and Edge enshittifying themselves, nows a great time for Apple to ship Safari for Windows again.
What for? Firefox is faster than Chrome these days.
Oh please no, Safari is… weird. It’s the new IE for front-end developers.
“Hey Safari, here’s the response from an API call.”
Safari: Oh, you didn’t specify how to cache this. I guess I’ll just cache it… forever!
I haven’t used chrome in about 5 or 6 years now. Firefox all the way. I can’t support a monopoly on the web.
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Stop supporting the Google monopoly on browser rendering engines and use Firefox or LibreWolf
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Better late than never I guess.
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Don’t give them any ideas.
operating systems might eventually be subscription based too… oh wait
Can you even imagine?
Linux, the superior operating system, will never be subscription based.
Red hat shifting nervously in its seat
Technically the subscription is for the enterprise customer support, not for the software itself.
So far. Never trust a publicly traded company when they think there is money to be made.
Never trust a publicly traded company.
the only kind of based that linux wont be
Fucking true
Wait what ? we’re not there yet are we ?
apparently windows 12 is planned be a subscription, or at least have something be a subscription. this is just what ive heard tho
Fr ? It’s high time to ditch that sorry excuse of an OS 🙁
For now it’s just rumor from a developer file that said something along the line of ‘subscription_status:###’.
Have to use chrome at work and it’s just such a shitty browser experience. Don’t understand why anyone would use it unless they actually use Google for work.
Why is anyone surprised by this?! Google is an ad company.
Even though google bought double click I some times wonder if it was just double click wearing a google skin the whole time scobbydoo style
