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Re: Google Chrome just rolled out a new way to track you and serve ads

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Let's have an advertising company also have a monopoly on the web browser. What could possibly go wrong?

You all voted for this.

But Chrome loads 1000 tabs a second faster than Firefox, which makes Firefox totally unusable.

Re: Google Chrome just rolled out a new way to track you and serve ads

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You all voted for this.

But Chrome loads 1000 tabs a second faster than Firefox, which makes Firefox totally unusable.

I have more tabs open on Firefox than chrome and Firefox is faster. Chrome is massively annoying because it unloads the tab all the time. It sucks that I have to use chrome for work.

Re: Google Chrome just rolled out a new way to track you and serve ads

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> Firefox remains a stable option to come back to everytime Don't get me wrong, I've been using Firefox for the last decade and I don't intend on using anything else for the foreseeable future, but Mozilla has no idea what they're doing with Firefox nowadays. Firefox View is the most useless thing I've ever seen, that expiring "independent voices" theme picker was some weird hippie stunt[1], the latest UI redesign wh…

I don't get this Firefox hate. I use Firefox and I'm pretty happy with it and the product's direction. I'm also fine igoring products and features that I'm not interested in.

> I've been using Firefox for the last decade and I don't intend on using anything else

> Mozilla has no idea what they're doing with Firefox

> Mozilla [...] seem to lack any vision

> they're just existing as an option without trying to be the best option

It's not Firefox hate, it's disappointment in Mozilla.

Re: Google Chrome just rolled out a new way to track you and serve ads

#95

I am against this and think it's pretty unconscionable, but I will say this in defense of Google collecting my data: 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…

Isn't their business model mostly: Having the most popular search engine?

Re: Google Chrome just rolled out a new way to track you and serve ads

#96
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Just stop being a helpless victim and get rid of this evil corporate spyware and switch to a privacy-respecting browser like Firefox, or even better LibreWolf https://librewolf.net/

I know the goal of LibreWolf is privacy, but logging out of everything on every session was enough for me to deal with the 'privacy' problem. Maybe because I have adblock, but I just don't get these ads other people talk about.

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Re: Google Chrome just rolled out a new way to track you and serve ads

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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.

I might be misremembering, but isn’t Arc also a Chromium-based browser?

Re: Google Chrome just rolled out a new way to track you and serve ads

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> Firefox remains a stable option to come back to everytime Don't get me wrong, I've been using Firefox for the last decade and I don't intend on using anything else for the foreseeable future, but Mozilla has no idea what they're doing with Firefox nowadays. Firefox View is the most useless thing I've ever seen, that expiring "independent voices" theme picker was some weird hippie stunt[1], the latest UI redesign wh…

I don't get this Firefox hate. I use Firefox and I'm pretty happy with it and the product's direction. I'm also fine igoring products and features that I'm not interested in.

> I don't get this Firefox hate.

Just because I'm criticizing something doesn't mean I hate it. I want it to be better, and that's something Firefox needs if it wants to get out of the bottom in terms of usage.

Re: Google Chrome just rolled out a new way to track you and serve ads

#99

This appears to be the same as this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37427227 Top comment on that one was: Key actionable info: to fix this, go to this URL: chrome://settings/adPrivacy and turn off the toggles on each of the three subpages. Alternatively, go to this URL https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/ to fix this permanently.

>Key actionable info: don't use Chrome.

FTFY

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