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Firefox + uBlock Origin (too lazy to use uMatrix) + privacy badger (because why not) + multi account containers + User agent switcher (for sites which want something else and refuse to load on FF, e.g. bing chat)
> Tracking technology can arguably benefit us as well. For example, it could be helpful if an online store reminds you every three months you need a new toothbrush, or that this time last year you bought a birthday card for your mum. fuck off
https://getfirefox.com
Consistently working as the better browser. Both Chrome and Edge are just hostile towards my browsing experience. Chrome keeps on rolling out new settings to pilfer my browsing data. Edge will just kill all of my settings to anything Microsoft wants. Arc and Firefox are working reliably at the moment but Firefox remains a stable option to come back to everytime.
https://getfirefox.com
Made the switch around 3 months ago to Firefox and it's been great.
I don't miss anything from Chrome and it's a really solid and fast browser. Mobile iOS could be a bit faster but it's okay.
Desktop Version is the best browser out right now (in my opinion)
Can anyone explain to me why this is worse than third-party cookies? *If* this lets chrome remove third-party cookies, doesn't it effectively increase your privacy by putting that tracking data on the user's machine instead of having random third-parties involved in every page load to harvest that tracking info? I understand that you can currently turn off third-party cookies, but a bunch of the internet breaks if yo…
A related reason is my bookmarks are very much a private affair and this method feels much more intrusive. I dread to think of the security implications.
The only upside is that third party cookies will be less of a problem in other browsers, if this new API kills them.
Google's entire business model is predicated on the fact that they and only they know who I am. As soon as they sell "me," they lose the value of my (so-far) collected data. They have to sell me in bundles, anonymized, otherwise they make no money in the long run.
That being said, it's been proven over and over and over that behavioral ad sales don't actually result in more clicks or sales for the advertiser.
I've been using FF with some privacy extensions and settings as my personal browser for a few years now, I'm definitely not going to change that now.
https://getfirefox.com
Consistently working as the better browser. Both Chrome and Edge are just hostile towards my browsing experience. Chrome keeps on rolling out new settings to pilfer my browsing data. Edge will just kill all of my settings to anything Microsoft wants. Arc and Firefox are working reliably at the moment but Firefox remains a stable option to come back to everytime.
Sure their sales team is extremely aggressive in corporations and bribe/take out to expensive concerts/sportsball games to sell Power Automate/Office crap.
But from a consumer level, there is almost no reason to use Microsoft services in 2023. Maybe if you are a hardcore gamer and need 60kfpsUltra the day a game is released.
https://getfirefox.com
> Tracking technology can arguably benefit us as well. For example, it could be helpful if an online store reminds you every three months you need a new toothbrush, or that this time last year you bought a birthday card for your mum. fuck off
Hell yes.
Those benefits don't require us being stalked around our entire online lives: the online store already knows when I bought a toothbrush¹. Unless they are trying to argue that telling every retailer on the planet when I last bought a toothbrush, or other healthcare products, is a good idea?!
Same for the birthday card if I bought one online. This example is even worse: potentially not just tracking my personal information but that of another person too, much like Facebook's “shadow profiles” for people who aren't even using the service themselves.
If I were a millionaire, and still as bitter at the world as I am while currently not being one, I might have a PI follow that writer for a bit, so I can helpfully send reminders, to illustrate how badly ill-conceived this take is…