Use Firefox. Consumers need to wean away from spam companies.
No browser is immune to fingerprinting, or even a little bit hard to fingerprint.
On Google’s Policy Change Towards Fingerprinting
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#12The simplest, readily available solution ---use Brave or LibreWolf. These can't prevent all fingerprinting but they can make it less reliable and more difficult and costly for a fingerprint to be relayed back to the mother ship. Personalized advertising is one of the dumbest ideas of the 21st century. Studies show it is less effective than context sensitive ads and it costs more. Participants in ad auctions are essen…
Simplest solution is Firefox or Safari, not another Chromium browser or niche Firefox Fork.
If security is not that important, Firefox or Safari. If you care about security, Chromium.
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#13He may or may not want the attention, but https://ladybird.org/ is coming along surprisingly well. In the meantime Safari/Firefox as appropriate. It's a shame really, because as a piece of software engineering Chrome is incredible.
Is it though? Or is it a monolithic rube Goldberg machine of lock-in?
Re: On Google’s Policy Change Towards Fingerprinting
#14The simplest, readily available solution ---use Brave or LibreWolf. These can't prevent all fingerprinting but they can make it less reliable and more difficult and costly for a fingerprint to be relayed back to the mother ship. Personalized advertising is one of the dumbest ideas of the 21st century. Studies show it is less effective than context sensitive ads and it costs more. Participants in ad auctions are essen…
Simplest solution is Firefox or Safari, not another Chromium browser or niche Firefox Fork.
Simplest solution is to not use computers anymore. Move to a cabin in the woods, away from civilization, and live off the fat of the land.
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#15This seems like nothing. Had Google ever enforced or even inspected its ad partners for use of fingerprinting?
My assumption is that every site that knows how to do fingerprinting is doing fingerprinting and probably deanonymizing against a shared signature database.
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#16He may or may not want the attention, but https://ladybird.org/ is coming along surprisingly well. In the meantime Safari/Firefox as appropriate. It's a shame really, because as a piece of software engineering Chrome is incredible.
Is it though? Or is it a monolithic rube Goldberg machine of lock-in?
V8 is amazing.
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
Simplest solution is Firefox or Safari, not another Chromium browser or niche Firefox Fork.
If security is not that important, Firefox or Safari. If you care about security, Chromium.
Any widespread recent security issues that were only affecting Safari and Firefox? That sounds like scaremongering to me.
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#20My guess is that the way aggressive captchas and similar tools work these days is fundamentally incompatible with the original wording in Google's policy.
Doesn't make it any less sad, though. The web is very hostile to the end user these days.