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Have 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.
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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!
(I suspect if you added that to whatever default plugin people recommend for Wordpress you could have a noticeable effect.)
Not sure if Apple Astroturfs or if god mods, but it's incredible to see the difference. Has google been caught using slaves?
I 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
I'm doing my part by linking to/sh*tposting this educational comic strip regularly: https://coloss.us.to/chrome_truth.png ;)
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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!)
When I reread some of my comments, I realize that I often drop words. A fair number of times the meaning is the opposite of what I intended to say. Those cases usually contradict the rest of my post so people should be able to figure out the intended meaning, but it would be nice if it didn't happen in the first place.
Assuming my friend has a webpage and wants me to take look at it, or he is offering a webshop and knows my IP, or my notable User Agent. Or that I have an ATI FireGL graphics card installed, which is something which JS can query. He just asks me to visit a server he controls. Will he now be able to query a list of properties of my personality? Interested in space, in biking, according to my Google Ad Settings also in…
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Chrome is entirely removing third-party cookies by 2022. https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/14/21064698/google-third-par...
Fingerprinting and connecting to logins has been a thing forever, just look at advertising companies offering cross-device targeting. Or just how aggressively google wants you to login to youtube these days.
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> But that framing is based on a false premise Another false premise is that the "old tracking" will stop because of the "new tracking".
Chrome is entirely removing third-party cookies by 2022. https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/14/21064698/google-third-par...
Maybe Chrome doing it will get them assed to fix it.