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Google Chrome pushes browser history-based ad targeting

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Re: Google Chrome pushes browser history-based ad targeting

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Post by turblety »

jtriangle wrote: post #10
samspenc wrote: post #3

Related tweet from Paul Graham: https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1699021936573940154 "If you go to chrome://settings/adPrivacy you can turn off the spyware that got inserted into the latest version of Chrome." And I found PaulG's tweet from this earlier Hacker News discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37392517

Or you could... use any other chromium based browser that doesn't do this. Might I suggest Vivaldi? It's nice, lots of built in features that you probably are running extensions for currently.

Please, do not use Vivaldi or any other closed source, secret codebase browser.

Can you imagine signing into your bank with a closed source browser.

Re: Google Chrome pushes browser history-based ad targeting

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Post by talonx »

jtriangle wrote: post #10
samspenc wrote: post #3

Related tweet from Paul Graham: https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1699021936573940154 "If you go to chrome://settings/adPrivacy you can turn off the spyware that got inserted into the latest version of Chrome." And I found PaulG's tweet from this earlier Hacker News discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37392517

Or you could... use any other chromium based browser that doesn't do this. Might I suggest Vivaldi? It's nice, lots of built in features that you probably are running extensions for currently.

Or, stick to Firefox.

In the long run I want a browser that has a solid community or base behind it, with a mostly-good record (no point chasing perfection here) of privacy and security. The Mozilla Foundation has done a good but not stellar job (remember 1.1.1.1?). I also don't want to change browsers because someday Vivaldi - hypothetically - gets acquired by Evil Corp, or has some vulnerability that remains unpatched. I just want to get my work done.

Re: Google Chrome pushes browser history-based ad targeting

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Post by talonx »

xmprt wrote: post #6
ht85 wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The popup is absolutely disgusting. I would love to think this would backfire and push more people towards Firefox but their target is obviously not HN readers, they know what they are doing.

I was wondering why I didn't see this popup and realized that I've been using Firefox for almost a year now. Haven't looked back.

Ditched Chrome years ago.

Re: Google Chrome pushes browser history-based ad targeting

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Post by Liquix »

jtriangle wrote: post #10
samspenc wrote: post #3

Related tweet from Paul Graham: https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1699021936573940154 "If you go to chrome://settings/adPrivacy you can turn off the spyware that got inserted into the latest version of Chrome." And I found PaulG's tweet from this earlier Hacker News discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37392517

Or you could... use any other chromium based browser that doesn't do this. Might I suggest Vivaldi? It's nice, lots of built in features that you probably are running extensions for currently.

Why use chromium based browsers at all? Google largely has control of the project and they seem determined to keep adding anti-privacy/anti-user features.

Re: Google Chrome pushes browser history-based ad targeting

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Post by talonx »

nunodonato wrote: post #9

You got to wonder how much more it will take for people to start switching to another browser. Hopefully not too late

Sadly, as long as Chrome remains the default in Android, the vast majority of people (read non-technical folks) will continue to use Chrome.
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