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Wow. "Don't be evil" is really dead and buried isn't it?
Most advertisers don't want to reach you if you don't want to be reached.
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They can't be deleted or blocked. They are not confined to one device.
After reading the article, I fail to see how these are not confined to one device. basically, the article suggests that they'll add a random unique ID to the browsers' identification (I assume they're talking about the user agent). How would this spread across devices?
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After reading the article, I fail to see how these are not confined to one device. basically, the article suggests that they'll add a random unique ID to the browsers' identification (I assume they're talking about the user agent). How would this spread across devices?
My mistake. But they are trivial to correlate and I would expect them to be correlated.
I thought this was well known, the "cookie" is known as RLZ > http://blog.chromium.org/2010/06/in-open-for-rlz.html RLZ gives us the ability to accurately measure the success of marketing promotions and distribution partnerships in order to meet our contractual and financial obligations. It assigns non-unique, non-personally identifiable promotion tracking labels to client products
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I've been using Firefox as my main browser for a couple of years now. It's really getting better in every build. And Vimperator is not available for Chrome. Nowadays my biggest reason to stay with Firefox is that I trust Mozilla more than I trust Google.
I switched from FF when it was sluggish. Funny, the reason I don't switch back is the opposite of yours: I don't want to miss Vimium... how does Vimperator compare to Vimium?
Later I discovered a Firefox addon called VimFX that basically aims to be "Chromium for Firefox": A very simple set of Vim-like shortcuts, configured in almost exactly the way Chromium is. Once I started using it, I felt right at home in Firefox, and I haven't looked back since. It's got a few warts (delay when using gg, Ctrl-F rebound to PageDown by default), but all things considered I'm pretty happy with it.
The problem are not the cookies. The problem is the tracking and the privacy invasion. I don't want some body following me at every step to know every thing I do using cookies or any alternative method.
Then that's the problem for you, not the problem in general.
It's not a technical problem at all. Tracking is as easy to solve as to put a UID to each device (problem solved).
e.g. Apple some time ago forbid developer to use such an unique id (http://www.tuaw.com/2011/08/19/ios-5-deprecates-udid-as-iden...) probably on privacy laws grounds.
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I've been using Firefox as my main browser for a couple of years now. It's really getting better in every build. And Vimperator is not available for Chrome. Nowadays my biggest reason to stay with Firefox is that I trust Mozilla more than I trust Google.
I switched from FF when it was sluggish. Funny, the reason I don't switch back is the opposite of yours: I don't want to miss Vimium... how does Vimperator compare to Vimium?
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I just switched today. After installing the omnibar extension and removing the ugly bar in the bottom, if feels just as comfortable as Chrome.
fwiw the address bar does most of what Chrome's omnibar does, out of the box. It's just a bit hidden because they include the search field by default.