To be honest though, for the general public not using adblockers, is FloC not better privacy wise than your traditional cookies?
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#42Re: DuckDuckGo Extension to Block FLoC, Google’s New Tracking Method in Chrome
#43No thank you. I appreciate what DDG is trying to do but in the end, a search engine that makes money from selling ads trying to protect me from another search engine that also sells ads is just feeding the ecosystem. I am going to put my money into FF no matter how annoying some of the things in it are.
I'm honestly ok with ads, I am not ok with "personalised" ads
It always surprises me when people say that they're fine with personalised ads, even going so far as saying that if they're getting ads they want them to be personalised. I guess I _can_ understand why, they want them to be potentially useful if they're seeing them...
To me though, sure, show me ads, fine, whatever, but don't build them around a profile of me to try to manipulate me directly based on my potential interests and behaviour. Any time I can disable any "personalisation" of ads, I do.
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#44Even without privacy considerations though, duckduckgo seems to give me better results, I've been using it as my default search engine for years
Are you based in the US? I found them really bad for localized results outside of the US, even when local mode is enabled (although that's annoying to do manually). In the end I used !g for so many search queries that I switched back again.
For European results at least, Qwant is pretty good (and like DDG doesn't log or track users):
Re: DuckDuckGo Extension to Block FLoC, Google’s New Tracking Method in Chrome
#45Brave has also disabled FLoC: https://brave.com/why-brave-disables-floc/
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#46I don't know man.
I was really happy about DDG existing and making an effort (although I am not a user).
But they now clearly shifted from a "Noble Actor" to a "Competitor" with this aggressive marketing. I don't appreciate these marketing campaigns that are directed at the competition. I never liked the "I'm a Mac"-campaigns, nor the all the "Bing"-fearmongering.
It signals to me that you're not a fighter for a noble cause, letting the product speak for itself, but actually in for yourself in the first place. I'm rather turned off by this.
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#47I started displaying a banner on my website [1] a while back for visitors using Chrome/Chromium telling them to "give Firefox a try for the future of the open web". I don't know how many people came across that or clicked the link, as I don't track that, but I enjoy doing my tiny part in letting people know. [1]: https://www.gkbrk.com
Might say "Optimized for privacy-respecting browsers. Chrome users might experience issues [more info]"
In what way is the site "optimized for privacy-respecting browsers" ? The browser is the thing being optimized. Does it mean to say that the website operators will intentionnaly not respect privacy of Chrome users but they will for Firefox ?
“Chrome users might experience issues” but what issues ? It reads like a dishonest TOS like the one used by service providers using catch-all statements to cover their backs.
It sounds like the old “optimized for Internet explorer and 837 by 394 resolution” for websites that were not optimized in any way but it was just the people behind it not able or unwilling to do better.
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#48I would much rather have personalized ads than have the early 2000s ads (hot single ladies, making $100k a day, etc.).
It seems to me that no matter what Google does, there will be pitchforks ready. What is so horrible about FLoC if I as the user am protected and my personal identity is kept in check, and only contained within my browser.
I'll stop using Chrome when there is a better alternative.. Firefox is a downgrade in each aspect, Edge is Edge (lol) and you can put a gun to my head but I won't use Safari, I have no idea how someone can even use Safari, the UI is so unintuitive, and they tried making it so simple that it is a pain in the ass to do anything more advanced.
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm honestly ok with ads, I am not ok with "personalised" ads
Indeed. If I buy a magazine then ads are targeted at readers of the magazine but they don't track me, invade my privacy, follow me around wherever I go or occasionally try to hijack me. If a newspaper or online magazine had traditional ads that were embedded in the page as static images (no distracting video please) then I'd leave my ad blocker off.
Careful what you wish for. I go to a local website for local news, and they display five big banners which you must scroll through — one and a half screen — before you get to see the actual content, headline included.
True, those are not targeted ads, they are sponsored content, but I wouldn’t even bother setting up my adblocker, had they made them less annoying.
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#50What about Microsoft edge?