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Which major political party will stop this if I vote for them?
hizb ut tahrir.
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Google Chrome just rolled out a new way to track you and serve ads
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Re: Google Chrome just rolled out a new way to track you and serve ads
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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.
Why is M$ even in the discourse on broswers? 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.
So everyone shouid use - Linux?
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> 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 trackin…
> 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… That’s not a healthy fantasy. The “following” part is especially creepy. There’s a contact the author link on the site. If you care to contact her it’s just a couple clicks away. No reason to hire a stalker. Why are you so angry at the author and not at the people who actually made…
We can be angry at both too.
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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.
Consumer-side activism has never worked. Only through regulatory action will these parasitic advertisers and the harmful industries around it be thwarted.
Re: Google Chrome just rolled out a new way to track you and serve ads
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> 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 trackin…
> 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… That’s not a healthy fantasy. The “following” part is especially creepy. There’s a contact the author link on the site. If you care to contact her it’s just a couple clicks away. No reason to hire a stalker. Why are you so angry at the author and not at the people who actually made…
It’s so weird to me how taking away the “at scale” suddenly makes this bad.
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You all voted for this.
All the annoyed people in this thread, reading this post from their Google Chrome window. And every time I mention this, I get a ton of excuses, from people that should know better, that they can't leave Google. Boo woo. There might be exceptions, but to the large majority of other lazy tech users, this is on you. Enshittification doesn't happen in a vacuum. You are passive actors to a shittier web.
I'm annoyed and I don't use Chrome. Do you have any statistics about browser usage of the HN crowd that backs your assertion?
Re: Google Chrome just rolled out a new way to track you and serve ads
#197I uninstalled chrome & switched to Brave (I know about core) when I couldn't disable chrome auto update. I have firefox too.
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Re: Google Chrome just rolled out a new way to track you and serve ads
#198https://getfirefox.com
I was a 10+ year User of Chrome. I loved that Browser and I tried Firefox maybe every 2-3 years for a day and was always unhappy. 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)
> Mobile iOS could be a bit faster but it's okay.
Mobile Firefox in iOS is just a wrapper of Safari's Webkit. I use it as I like the syncing features.
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It's actually worth reading the article to the end, because otherwise you'd be missing the amazing final paragraph: > Lastly, it’s good to remember nothing truly comes for free. Software costs money to develop. If you’re not paying towards that, then it’s likely you – or your data – are the product. We need to revolutionise how we think about our own data and what value it truly holds. Ignoring the fact that this is…
1. There are services that you pay for where you are still the product - true 2. There are services that you pay for where you are not the product 3. All services that you don’t pay for you are the product. So the first step is getting people to pay for the service
Another way is to make it problematic for a commercial entity to provide high value services for free. Basically an anti-dumping law, but for digital goods.
Re: Google Chrome just rolled out a new way to track you and serve ads
#200Can 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…
It's MUCH worse, because if this catches on in any significant way, it makes Google the main (eventually only?) provider of demographic data for audiences/tracking. Google already owns the browser market and almost owns the advertising market, but if you want to try to play outside with your own SEO/direct marketing strategy you may be able to make it work. But in a world where cookies/independent tracking is dead and the only provider is Google? you'll have to go through AdSense.
Google needs to be broken up and ground to dust --well, judiciously regulated by a democratically-elected legislature, but in the absence of that, I would take anything. I can't believe this is the "Don't do evil" company.