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The largest browser is owned by a surveillance firm
Why anyone would use Chrome blows my mind a bit. Brave is a superior browser in every single aspect of a browser and as of rn - you do not see ads on the Internet. It's such a no brainer, I can't comprehend it.
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Sites preferring geolocation over Accept-Language as a means of picking the language is one of my pet peeves. Preferring geolocation over a logged in user's stored setting is beyond absurd.
Agreed. I live in Finland, but my preferred language is English. Many many sites send me Finnish by default, although Google directions will always be in Swedish. I seem to have to "change results to English" on google searches at least once a week when it forgets which language I've setup and used for the past ten years!
But you add a lot of entropy to the privacy violators.
How convenient.
Combined with other news story [0] it sure feels like google is switching from trying to comply with regulation & instead doing what they want with a "Well what are you going to do about it?" attitude. Regulators really need to cut them down to size. Was bad enough during anti-trust era in the US...now we're dealing with multinational entities the size of countries. Can't let that get out of hand or we'll end up livi…
Big tech or big business very much prefers the scoop shit and fight it out in court method as it gives them a huge advantage.
Google's philosophy seems to be that intrusive tracking and behavioral advertising are OK as long as they only happen on the user's device. The result is a worst-of-both-worlds: To an end user, it will still feel as if you're being tracked, with ads following you around, etc, but no worries, your privacy is safe because the advertiser doesn't have access to the data...
To be clear, Google has the data, and despite acting like they allow opting out from tracking, they do not.
If there was no tracking, anonymous content sensitive ads would be more popular and thus valuable.
Unfortunately even Mozilla is now trying to appease advertisers with their PPA initiative. I don't want purchases to be attributed.
I will continue blocking all ads forever and circumventing them in other ways possible (like pirating content and using paywall blockers). I'm done trying to fix the system.
A few weeks ago, I was using my mothers PC. Google was erroneously in French, and no language chooser available. So I checked. Firefox sent a HTTP header with a Dutch preference. She was logged in with her Google account, which had a Dutch language preference. Some geolocation providers put her in Dutch speaking cities of Belgium. Still, the Google Algorithm had decided she would speak French. Plenty of other sites m…
Sites preferring geolocation over Accept-Language as a means of picking the language is one of my pet peeves. Preferring geolocation over a logged in user's stored setting is beyond absurd.
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This was so annoying when visiting Poland recently. I don't speak Polish. Even after setting my preferred language on my Google account , Google Search was still speaking Polish to me.
Prime video is amazing for this; in Germany but only dubs available? Admit defeat that the orig audio is somehow not available but not even English subtitles?!
With the increase in ads on streaming platforms I've just reverted back to piracy. The enshittification has gone too far.