Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can with a VM
Legally?
Shhhh
DuckDuckGo Extension to Block FLoC, Google’s New Tracking Method in Chrome
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Re: DuckDuckGo Extension to Block FLoC, Google’s New Tracking Method in Chrome
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That's only while Google graciously allows to disable it at all. When Google will decide to make Floc permanent, these Chrome mods called Brave and Vivaldi will be forced to do it too.
how will they be forced?
When Google will remove ability to switch Floc on or off from the code of Chrome browser and all it's mods.
Re: DuckDuckGo Extension to Block FLoC, Google’s New Tracking Method in Chrome
#163I 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]"
We need to bring back the little "Optimized for X" banners at the bottom of pages!
Re: DuckDuckGo Extension to Block FLoC, Google’s New Tracking Method in Chrome
#164Re: DuckDuckGo Extension to Block FLoC, Google’s New Tracking Method in Chrome
#165Have any of you tried Ungoogled Chromium? I found it pretty easy to setup on Windows despite being someone who gets easily confused trying to do anything command line-esque.
https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium
Obviously Firefox is an alternative, but i personally was turned off by recent censorship comments by Mozilla’s CEO which I won’t get into here.
Re: DuckDuckGo Extension to Block FLoC, Google’s New Tracking Method in Chrome
#166Have any of you tried Ungoogled Chromium? I found it pretty easy to setup on Windows despite being someone who gets easily confused trying to do anything command line-esque. https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium Obviously Firefox is an alternative, but i personally was turned off by recent censorship comments by Mozilla’s CEO which I won’t get into here.
This is just cementing Google monopoly in browsers.
Re: DuckDuckGo Extension to Block FLoC, Google’s New Tracking Method in Chrome
#167Earlier quoted context omitted.
I own both, and an Android phone. Unfortunately, I don't own a memory checker for HN. I test with Safari as well, I just forgot to add it to the list.
Have you considered adding a comment linter to your CI process for posting to HN? Or am I the only one with an end-to-end K8 driven process for comment quality?
I know this is sarcasm and I also know we’ll see a Show HN with just this in a few weeks (AI blockchain driven!)
Re: DuckDuckGo Extension to Block FLoC, Google’s New Tracking Method in Chrome
#168I generally am on the pro-Firefox, anti-Chrome train, but there is one practical exception: websites that make use of in-browser audio synthesis often (in my experience) just don't work in Firefox. Audible Genius's Building Blocks course has a in-browser DAW that you need to use Chrome for. Flowkey (browser-based piano lessons) also only works in Chrome, as far as I've been able to figure out. So to anyone with an in…
FTR here's my deal breaker with Firefox:
Just tried using it and was pleasantly surprised that it mostly worked fine with DWM (an X11 window manager), and it could play sound from my built-in sound card fine, even though I don't have pulseaudio.
However, once I switched to the external sound card, Firefox wasn't able to produce any sound (tried Youtube and some local videos); so I'll be staying with Chromium, unless some patched version of Chromium (with privacy improvements) makes its way to the Archlinux repos.
Re: DuckDuckGo Extension to Block FLoC, Google’s New Tracking Method in Chrome
#169I try to sell friends and family on resisting Google's privacy invasions but lately it always goes the same way. "Yeah I know they know everything. How does that hurt me, like how does that cause me a problem in a real way that makes my life worse?" And I can't come up with a good answer for that.
Substitute Google with the Chinese Communist Party and most Chinese people right now have the same attitude as your friends.
How would those friends feel about Chinese people being able to gain their information independence from CCP? If they would be in favour, then at least metaphorically they answered their own question.
Re: DuckDuckGo Extension to Block FLoC, Google’s New Tracking Method in Chrome
#170Have any of you tried Ungoogled Chromium? I found it pretty easy to setup on Windows despite being someone who gets easily confused trying to do anything command line-esque. https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium Obviously Firefox is an alternative, but i personally was turned off by recent censorship comments by Mozilla’s CEO which I won’t get into here.
This is just cementing Google monopoly in browsers.
That's a nonsense argument.