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By Supercookie they mean Evercookie, right? That seems to be what they’re describing.
https://github.com/samyk/evercookie
It's quite dead now, stopped working around 2017: https://github.com/samyk/evercookie/issues/125
Firefox is so good. It's a continual source of amazement for me that a majority of HNers are using a browser made by the largest data gobbler in the world, instead of one that actually tries to prevent spying on users.
It's probably one of the most obscure reasons, but keep Chromium around because it's the only web browser with a JIT-backed javascript engine on ppc64le. Firefox has to run everything interpreted, which is actually fine for most sites, but bogs down on JS heavy web app type things. On a much less niche side of things, a lot of web apps like Teams, Zoom, and probably many others are only fully functional on Chromium,…
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Google websites work better on chrome. Not sure if it’s because google is doing something nefarious or if Firefox is just not keeping up with google website technologies. So, I’ve trained my brain to use chrome as an app only for google websites. When I need to check gmail or YouTube or google calendar, I use chrome. Otherwise I’m on Firefox or safari. It’s worked pretty well. I found I was only really unhappy with F…
What problems do you have? I use Firefox exclusively and I'm a heavy Google app user too (laziness...), but I can't remember ever having a significant issue
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Firefox sends everything you type in the address bar to google by default. Would you be able to tell the difference between stock firefox and stock chrome if all you saw was the fiddler session? I don't know, I haven't tried. I did look at a firefox session in fiddler and I was not impressed. Pick your poison. If you configure all the settings in firefox properly it might be acceptable. But can you just do the same i…
Even if you've changed the search engine?
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Firefox sends everything you type in the address bar to google by default. Would you be able to tell the difference between stock firefox and stock chrome if all you saw was the fiddler session? I don't know, I haven't tried. I did look at a firefox session in fiddler and I was not impressed. Pick your poison. If you configure all the settings in firefox properly it might be acceptable. But can you just do the same i…
Even if you've changed the search engine?
How is that even legal
I know, right? Like if I were to be caught doing this to a random woman it would be appropriately labelled 'stalking' yet when a company does it they potentially have a patentable marketing technique on their hands or something.
Are there any plans for complete partitioning? I'd like to see a point where browsing on two different websites are treated as a completely different user. Embeds, cookies, cookies in embeds, etc.
[0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...