I use (sometimes/often) mitmproxy and remove or change suspect headers. It is also nice to remove all the fb, google and more crap from the html. And much more. It is a lot of work not to break a website. I don't know whether I am more trackable or not - this is the 'only browser' without x-client-data header.
Google tracks individual users per Chrome installation ID
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Re: Google tracks individual users per Chrome installation ID
#132Earlier quoted context omitted.
Safari has the same kind of AdBlock limits that Chrome team wants to implement. Also it's kinda behind the curve on iOS when it comes to features. Not to mention the fact that iOS users are forbidden from using any competitive browser, including Firefox.
I'm not sure what you mean by forbidden? Chrome and Firefox (and other browsers too) are readily available through the iOS app store.
And they don’t open when you click links on the device, only MobileSafari does.
Re: Google tracks individual users per Chrome installation ID
#133Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm not sure what you mean by forbidden? Chrome and Firefox (and other browsers too) are readily available through the iOS app store.
Those iOS browsers you see in the app store are just wrappers for the same Safari browser engine. They all use Safari to display the page, they just wrap the Safari browser engine with their own toolbars and other features.
WebKit is not Safari.
Re: Google tracks individual users per Chrome installation ID
#134If you haven't used Firefox in a while you should really give it another chance. It has vastly improved in terms of CPU and battery usage. It also has a lot of great privacy-enhancing features like tracking protection enabled by default and extensions like Facebook Container make it trivial to prevent tracking even further.
As a firefox user, they are spending more money on PR and less on quality. Their UI has gotten progressively worse. And I'm not taking about xul deprecation. Please Mozilla come back to your strengths. SIMPLE: Provide a great alternative.
Re: Google tracks individual users per Chrome installation ID
#135Earlier quoted context omitted.
... what? If you aren't paying for it; you are the product. Simple.
But what about people like me that are paying google (quite a lot actually)?
I don't understand your group. The company that offers everything for free for the price of privacy and you also give them money?
If I was paying for a service that didn't respect my privacy I wouldn't give them my identifying payment info as well. Your fingerprint is connected to all of the credit data providers. If you didn't pay they had to guess or connect you another way.
Re: Google tracks individual users per Chrome installation ID
#136Earlier 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 plus IP is already huge, but browsers leak so much more than that.
By default it's much more than 13b. Seems to be 13b only if you disable analytics/crash reports.
Re: Google tracks individual users per Chrome installation ID
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This sounded harder to do than it was in my experience. I figured the alternatives to their products would be less polished. But I switched to Firefox and honestly prefer it to Chrome. (They allow extensions on Android, meaning adblock, which is a game changer for me.) DDG for search is great. Protonmail for email is fine, etc. There isn't much in the Google ecosystem that I miss tbh.
For me is google docs and maps.
If you need online office and maps then there's Microsoft Office and Bing Maps. Office is an excellent product, well worth the few bucks a month.
AFAIK, Office is fairly good about privacy.
Re: Google tracks individual users per Chrome installation ID
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Do you know why that is?
Mozilla Corporation is a for-profit company. Depending on the legislation it is sometimes forbidden to take donation, or at least very difficult/limited for company. Mozilla Foundation is the non-profit organization (and they do take donation).
They probably can take donations just fine but there is no tax deduction for the donor.
Re: Google tracks individual users per Chrome installation ID
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Doesn't look like it from my testing of version 81.0.4036.0. But in normal Chrome I do see it.
Can you test it in Microsoft's new Edge browser based on Chromium? I'm very curious about that. (I don't know how to test such a thing myself, sorry :S)
I didn't see the x-client-header in the Edge insider browser when accessing YouTube.
Re: Google tracks individual users per Chrome installation ID
#140Ahh 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.
And then? I use it and judge it bases on it's merits. Surely they know this (and hence decided it's worth the time?)