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Re: Google Chrome pushes browser history-based ad targeting

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Post by keepamovin »

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

If you're interested in utilizing your history information for something in your intentional interests, consider saving an archive of pages you browse to make a search engine you can query back through later.

You can save the full content for indexing with full text search, and you can even export archives as tarballs by zipping up the directory. Many people find this a useful way to "mine" their own browser history to create a curated search engine aligned with your interests. Or simply to save the pages they browse for review offline--either to save bandwidth, or just because they're actually "offline"--at a remote site, or on an airplane.

Everything is saved in a fully interactive way. Personally tho, I find search the most useful feature. Also, we're open source so if you want to get involved, please do so!

https://github.com/dosyago/DiskerNet

Re: Google Chrome pushes browser history-based ad targeting

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Post by notrealyme123 »

aquir wrote: post #32
the_gipsy wrote: post #8

And there is no end in sight. For the love of God, please switch to Firefox.

I have this weird issue with Firefox: any time when is fast forward in a YouTube video it drops my USB-C connections!

Interesting. Is hardware acceleration enabled?

Re: Google Chrome pushes browser history-based ad targeting

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Post by vbarrielle »

Tistron wrote: post #38
tazjin wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Firefox is just less usable. It's slower and a lot of config options are missing. Stuff that is common in enterprises and has buttons in Chrome (e.g. "add the intranet search to your browser!") is hard in Firefox (you have to write and serve a specific XML file somewhere). Also it has a big incredible redesign every 2 weeks, as far as I can tell from HN, while Chrome's UI is mostly boring and stable.

Yeah. For me, the main feature that has me use chrome instead is that it can remember my credit card details. I don't understand how it can be that firefox doesn't do this, it's so annoying.

Firefox has a "saved credit cards" feature. I'm not using it, so maybe I'm unaware of its limitations?

Re: Google Chrome pushes browser history-based ad targeting

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Post by [deleted] »

Tistron wrote: post #38
tazjin wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Firefox is just less usable. It's slower and a lot of config options are missing. Stuff that is common in enterprises and has buttons in Chrome (e.g. "add the intranet search to your browser!") is hard in Firefox (you have to write and serve a specific XML file somewhere). Also it has a big incredible redesign every 2 weeks, as far as I can tell from HN, while Chrome's UI is mostly boring and stable.

Yeah. For me, the main feature that has me use chrome instead is that it can remember my credit card details. I don't understand how it can be that firefox doesn't do this, it's so annoying.

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Re: Google Chrome pushes browser history-based ad targeting

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Post by thorio »

This is absolutely fantastic! It releases me from my region beta paradox and finally gives me enough activation energy to break my laziness of using chrome mobile (only left-over).

Would like to head for Firefox, if they would only add some usability features I'm so used to (like tab groups). So Brave it will be, i guess...

Still the sad thing is, that both Brave (technically) and Firefox (financially) are heavily dependent on Google.

Re: Google Chrome pushes browser history-based ad targeting

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Post by yaps8 »

Tistron wrote: post #38
tazjin wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Firefox is just less usable. It's slower and a lot of config options are missing. Stuff that is common in enterprises and has buttons in Chrome (e.g. "add the intranet search to your browser!") is hard in Firefox (you have to write and serve a specific XML file somewhere). Also it has a big incredible redesign every 2 weeks, as far as I can tell from HN, while Chrome's UI is mostly boring and stable.

Yeah. For me, the main feature that has me use chrome instead is that it can remember my credit card details. I don't understand how it can be that firefox doesn't do this, it's so annoying.

Firefox actually also does it, maybe limited based on location.

For instance here they announce it for UK, France, Germany (in 2022) and say it was available in the US/Canada since 2018: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-news/fi...

Re: Google Chrome pushes browser history-based ad targeting

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Post by AndroTux »

turblety wrote: post #12
jtriangle wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

This argument lacks for the average consumer. Heavily. Do you compile every update of Firefox yourself (and this assumes that you have read every line of code that changed during updates)? Especially when on Windows or macOS, you just download the version that is distributed by mozilla.org on their website. There is no guarantee that they're using the actual sources to build. They could just as well add in a little patch that does some nasty things.

But they won't, because they have a reputation to loose. So does Vivaldi.

Re: Google Chrome pushes browser history-based ad targeting

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Post by no_butterscotch »

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.

I use Brave.

All the same Chrome extensions and other functionality work.

But I'd wager someone on here could find a problem with them too :(

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