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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.
on edit: admittedly this was because I was too lazy to change, but later on that laziness started looking like moral backbone!
I uninstalled chrome & switched to Brave (I know about core) when I couldn't disable chrome auto update. I have firefox too.
I used Brave for awhile, but it got too crypto which made it feel scammy.
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.
I use Chrome at work and Firefox on personal devices (including my Android phone). As a heavy user of both browsers, as far as I can see there is really no downside to Firefox. In fact, even though presumably there are way more engineers working on Chrome than on Firefox, I guess most of Chrome's engineering effort goes towards benefitting advertisers, not users. While Chrome seems entirely stagnant since I adopted i…
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Yes. They will also do so if you keep the feature on. Third-party cookies in Chrome won't be blocked for the near-term future at least. Unless you switch browsers - e.g. Firefox has blocked third-party cookies for a while now.
There's an option in the settings to block third-party cookies. Does that no do what it says?
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You won't regret it and you won't miss anything. Who cares if Chrome is 2% faster on some obscure CSS parsing test? At least you aren't participating in your own psychological manipulation and are resisting WEI.
> Who cares if Chrome is 2% faster on some obscure CSS parsing test? The person who has to access a site that takes advantage of that parsing trick every day, I assume.
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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?
And I was a big fan of Edge when it came out as an alternative to Chrome. There's always an arc (pun intended) where the product goes the profit-at-all-costs direction and chooses to exploit it's users (looking at Chrome/Edge). I will move away from Arc the moment it chooses to do so without allowing me an alternative way to support them.
[1]: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/09/googles-widely-oppos...
I uninstalled chrome & switched to Brave (I know about core) when I couldn't disable chrome auto update. I have firefox too.
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…
> I'd rather have my machine present this kind of data than have a network of unknown third-parties collaborate by sharing bits about me to build a profile. That’s a bit like saying you’d rather have cameras inside your house streaming your every move than have paparazzi at your door. In the current model, the third parties have to fight and spend resources to get an imperfect profile of you, while you can make their…
In my mind the metaphor is more like "instead of having paparazzi at your door following around, you show everyone a card saying that you like dogs and video games and the steelers, and you tend to shop at big box stores out of town".
I'd rather know exactly what I'm presenting, which is possible in this model, than have the paparazzi all over me figuring most of it out imperfectly anyway.
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That's a good point. Now I'm curious if they have some internal tagging that differentiates between these two kinds of products.
I guess it's more like a continuum than two discrete categories. On one end of the spectrum there's a family house, on the other, there's toilet paper. That's why they repeat ads even for a toaster.