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Google Chrome to remove detailed cookie and site data controls

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Re: Google Chrome to remove detailed cookie and site data controls

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post #37

Sounds like Chrome is moving more toward being a surveillance tool and ad delivery platform that also browses the web (well, more than it is right now anyway).

It’s more and more obvious we need competition in the browser space. Firefox as an excellent and performant alternative. Personally I use Chrome for work and Firefox for personal stuff.

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Re: Google Chrome to remove detailed cookie and site data controls

#55

Sounds like Chrome is moving more toward being a surveillance tool and ad delivery platform that also browses the web (well, more than it is right now anyway).

It’s been that way since they forced logged you in on Chrome whenever you logged in to any Google website.

Re: Google Chrome to remove detailed cookie and site data controls

#56

It's hard to tell from the article, but aren't detailed cookies still available through dev tools?

In my experience cookie control in Chrome have always sucked. There's barebone support in dev tools but everyone time I've wanted to do anything serious, I've always relied on more powerful cookie editing extensions.

Re: Google Chrome to remove detailed cookie and site data controls

#57
post #52

Firefox Nightly is a pretty good browser imho Also it just so happens that there are extensions that allow you detailed (read: raw and editable) cookie data for each website you visit!

You don't even need extensions, that's available in the stock developer tools. Though you have to be on the site at the time to access it.

Re: Google Chrome to remove detailed cookie and site data controls

#58
post #14

Damn. And we lost Servo just when it was getting close to being not shitty. While everything else is moving towards more shitty.

Servo was never supposed to be a browser. It was a testbed for new browser tech/components, some of which got ported into Firefox. I had hopes that Servo would also be an embeddable browser engine, but not sure if that was ever a serious goal.

Servo still exists and has been spun out of Mozilla's org (https://github.com/servo/servo/). Certainly development will be slower without a dedicated, paid team behind it, but it's still alive (last merge to master was 9 days ago). And perhaps without Mozilla's direct control, it will actually end up becoming the browser you hoped it would be.

Re: Google Chrome to remove detailed cookie and site data controls

#59
post #37

Sounds like Chrome is moving more toward being a surveillance tool and ad delivery platform that also browses the web (well, more than it is right now anyway).

It’s more and more obvious we need competition in the browser space. Firefox as an excellent and performant alternative. Personally I use Chrome for work and Firefox for personal stuff.

Do other Chromium based browsers like Brave count? Or do they need be completely separate browser architectures like Firefox and Opera?
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