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Dan Gillmor | 1 years ago (raw) | export | reply | flag 
 You are an absolute fool -- or don't care at all about your online privacy -- if you're still using Chrome after this. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/09/googles-widely-opposed-ad-platform-the-privacy-sandbox-launches-in-chrome/
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31dfed5e | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @f8d9bc1c so i assume you pay for  a browser?  Topics seems the least worst option to get ads that will pay for websites we visit.
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🫥 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 who still uses chrome, firefox + extensions = security careered to you

https://i.imgflip.com/42s9v5.jpg
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6c330567 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @f8d9bc1c Or you are forced to by your employer which is a 100% Google shop
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5bff8b4d | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @f8d9bc1c from my reading of this, sounds like it's a Chrome specific thing, rather than all Chromium browsers - I.e. Edge is unaffected
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23f8c7e3 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @f8d9bc1c Important to note that browsers built on Chromium, Chrome's open source underpinnings (Vivaldi, Edge + others) will not use the Google tracking platform. (But still, #Firefox  for the win)
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054f52ad | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @f8d9bc1c 

⬆️ 

“Don’t Be Evil” - it is to laugh.
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531c4f3e | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @f8d9bc1c You said it! #GoogleFree
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57563720 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @f8d9bc1c I don't put privacy high on my list of priorities, but being called a fool got my attention. I'm definitely in the Google camp (Android phone/tablet, Drive, Calendar...), so Chrome seemed like the obvious choice, but if that's thrown into question...

I worked at Netscape (not on the browser) during the time that Microsoft killed them, so I'm allergic to Edge. That history *should* push me to Firefox, but when I last used it years ago it didn't impress me. So I'm trying out Brave...
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Morfaine | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @f8d9bc1c How is this ethically different than what Google was doing already with cookies? Cookie based tracking has been in the browser since the start and many people are fine with it. I don’t see this as any different.