You should also donate to Mozilla because it’s an insanely good piece o software for the price!
Mozilla Corporation which makes the browser doesn't accept donations.
I assume they do get quite a bit of money from Mozilla Foundation, which does.
Google tracks individual users per Chrome installation ID
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Re: Google tracks individual users per Chrome installation ID
#52Chromium too?
As another commenter pointed out, the list of domains the header is sent to is part of the Chromium codebase: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/comp...
Re: Google tracks individual users per Chrome installation ID
#53I see people recommending Firefox, but I'll say that for mac users Safari is a very usable browser too. It's quite fast, and to my knowledge is not collecting/sharing my personal data with apple. https://www.apple.com/privacy/
These days I only use chrome for the g-suite tools that seem to require it to avoid mid-meeting crashes.
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#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
Are you talking about the same thing? Because the identifier above is claimed to have 13b of entropy. Is there another high entropy identifier?
13b, if usage statistics are disabled (not the default). Otherwise, unspecified amount of entropy.
thanks. and ugh.
Re: Google tracks individual users per Chrome installation ID
#55I haven't read this carefully enough to decide exactly how bad it is, but one thing seems clear to me: From what I see many techies are now aware and upset, and hardly anyone seems to want to defend Google anymore. I consider it more likely than not that Google will take some real beatings in the years to come. Kind of like Microsoft was fined by the US and EU, forced to advertise for competing browsers and ridiculed…
More and more people are blocking ads. Google’s business model is under threat. They will turn into hyenas in order to survive.
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#56I don't understand why Google and some other tech companies use their users as involuntary, unpaid guinea pigs. No consent. No opt-out. What's the motivation? Is it simple laziness because they don't want to deal with wetware? Is it afraid that if people knew what was happening they wouldn't be happy? Google has eighty brazillion employees it can test new features on.
Isn't that what most A/B testing is?
Re: Google tracks individual users per Chrome installation ID
#57I don't understand why Google and some other tech companies use their users as involuntary, unpaid guinea pigs. No consent. No opt-out. What's the motivation? Is it simple laziness because they don't want to deal with wetware? Is it afraid that if people knew what was happening they wouldn't be happy? Google has eighty brazillion employees it can test new features on.
... what?
If you aren't paying for it; you are the product. Simple.
Re: Google tracks individual users per Chrome installation ID
#58You should also donate to Mozilla because it’s an insanely good piece o software for the price!
Firefox should definitely be used, but donating to Mozilla is a mistake. They waste a lot of it, their executive compensation rates are way too high (especially given that MoCo just laid off employees), and Mozilla still hasn't kept up with promises they gave years ago (that Pocket is still proprietary being a notable and depressing example). Donate to smaller developers of software you use, it'll go a lot further, a…
> their executive compensation rates are way too high
Just because they're a non-profit doesn't mean execs should be paid far below market rates.
Re: Google tracks individual users per Chrome installation ID
#59You should also donate to Mozilla because it’s an insanely good piece o software for the price!
Firefox should definitely be used, but donating to Mozilla is a mistake. They waste a lot of it, their executive compensation rates are way too high (especially given that MoCo just laid off employees), and Mozilla still hasn't kept up with promises they gave years ago (that Pocket is still proprietary being a notable and depressing example). Donate to smaller developers of software you use, it'll go a lot further, a…
Also, Mozilla made donations to political entities in the past
Re: Google tracks individual users per Chrome installation ID
#60Ahh the good ol HN "stop using Google and start using Firefox" advertisement. It's a bit odd to see this in every Google thread. Btw, Firefox is too slow.
It's not odd at all. It's what the folks at Mozilla do. They jump in to every thread to push Firefox and Rust and make people think it's more widely used/better than it is.