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Washington Post's Privacy Tip: Stop Using Chrome, Delete Meta Apps (and Yandex)

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Re: Washington Post's Privacy Tip: Stop Using Chrome, Delete Meta Apps (and Yandex)

#11

Post by jfengel »

xnx wrote: post #6

Without the suggestion to install an adblocker, this is not credible advice.

Does the ad blocker prevent leaks of your information?

I know it blocks a use of your information against you (targeted ads). And any external source is a potential leak (e.g. the kinds of things that CORS is supposed to reduce).

But does an ad blocker specifically leak more, or just reduce the incentive to collect that information?

Re: Washington Post's Privacy Tip: Stop Using Chrome, Delete Meta Apps (and Yandex)

#13

Post by antithesizer »

jfengel wrote: post #11
xnx wrote: post #6

Without the suggestion to install an adblocker, this is not credible advice.

Does the ad blocker prevent leaks of your information? I know it blocks a use of your information against you (targeted ads). And any external source is a potential leak (e.g. the kinds of things that CORS is supposed to reduce). But does an ad blocker specifically leak more, or just reduce the incentive to collect that information?

Yes they block tracking

Re: Washington Post's Privacy Tip: Stop Using Chrome, Delete Meta Apps (and Yandex)

#14

Post by hk1337 »

azinman2 wrote: post #12
arresin wrote: post #7

What is the alternative to chrome that doesn’t crash or is not noticeably slower?

I feel like people sleep on safari, especially on Macs.

JavaScript Chrome developers did a good job of convincing people that Safari is the new IE.

I love Safari on macOS. I love the pinch/zoom with the tabs. I love that private browsing mode, at least seems to, keep things contained to the tab they started with. e.g. if I open facebook in a private tab then open new tab and go to facebook, it’s going to make me login.

Re: Washington Post's Privacy Tip: Stop Using Chrome, Delete Meta Apps (and Yandex)

#15

Post by righthand »

leereeves wrote: post #3

I hope people can get a "Stop Using Chrome" movement going, like we did with Internet Explorer long ago.

Idk, isn't that how we got Chrome? Isn't this inviting someone else to be the new Internet abuse daddy?

Re: Washington Post's Privacy Tip: Stop Using Chrome, Delete Meta Apps (and Yandex)

#17

Post by weaksauce »

jfengel wrote: post #11
xnx wrote: post #6

Without the suggestion to install an adblocker, this is not credible advice.

Does the ad blocker prevent leaks of your information? I know it blocks a use of your information against you (targeted ads). And any external source is a potential leak (e.g. the kinds of things that CORS is supposed to reduce). But does an ad blocker specifically leak more, or just reduce the incentive to collect that information?

they don't load up the ads at all so they can't know your information in the first place at least from the ads themselves. if the website is sharing information directly there's nothing you can do outside of some kind of vpn and never logging on to any services.

Re: Washington Post's Privacy Tip: Stop Using Chrome, Delete Meta Apps (and Yandex)

#19

Post by timewizard »

ninth_ant wrote: post #9
xnx wrote: post #6

Without the suggestion to install an adblocker, this is not credible advice.

A media outlet which depends on ad revenue as a primary income source is unlikely to suggest this. Ditching these deeply invasive products remains a good idea, independent on any decision to use ad blockers or not. The Meta/Yandex incident in particular is straight-up malware and everyone should remove their apps.

> which depends on ad revenue

They're more tightly bound than that. They're dependent on Google Display Ads. Which really makes their whole diatribe that much more pathetic.

Any media company that decided to traffic the ads themselves, from their own servers, and inline with their own content, would effectively be immune from ad blocking.

> Ditching these deeply invasive products remains a good idea

While still allowing random third party javascript to run unchecked on a parent website.

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