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Ad tech firms test ways to connect Google’s FLoC to other data

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Re: Ad tech firms test ways to connect Google’s FLoC to other data

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guywhocodes wrote: post #55
pdimitar wrote: post #46

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I've been on Firefox for a few years now and it irritates me how super slow it is. Version 89 seems to be a bit better though. I know it might be the extensions (I have 20+) but I seriously don't care. Chrome manages to be fast with the same set of extensions. I don't like Google but Firefox's slowness is a real strain on my productivity and brain well-being. Hope they improve even more soon. I am on an iMac Pro btw.…

What is it that is slow, are you on OS X?

Yes. Often times pages load very slowly, we're talking 5-8 seconds. I am on a gigabit connection (yes, that doesn't guarantee that my ISP has fast access to that particular page, I know) and Chrome is always loading those pages at least twice as fast.

Can't describe it perfectly. The UI is responsive but page loading is just severely slowed down -- not always but often. I have a bunch of privacy extensions but again, they don't seem to make Chrome sweat.

Re: Ad tech firms test ways to connect Google’s FLoC to other data

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Post by [deleted] »

ahmedalsudani wrote: post #40
pmurt7 wrote: post #27

We need to collectively switch to Firefox and Brave.

Correction: they never injected ads, but they do remove ads and replace them with "attention tokens", which is an opt-out system for publishers. See also https://tech.hindustantimes.com/tech/news/this-popular-brows... . In short, please look into the questionable aspects of Brave. Brave is perhaps the most ethically challenged browser out there. Hopefully they have stopped doing this, but they were injecting their ow…

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Re: Ad tech firms test ways to connect Google’s FLoC to other data

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drunner wrote: post #51
pdimitar wrote: post #46

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I've been on Firefox for a few years now and it irritates me how super slow it is. Version 89 seems to be a bit better though. I know it might be the extensions (I have 20+) but I seriously don't care. Chrome manages to be fast with the same set of extensions. I don't like Google but Firefox's slowness is a real strain on my productivity and brain well-being. Hope they improve even more soon. I am on an iMac Pro btw.…

Well, that's part of the issue. On macOS, all browsers are just skins over Safari. Google obviously has more resources to make this work better but I agree, overall I always found Chrome better than Firefox on macOS. You can't really compare that to a native linux/windows experience.

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Re: Ad tech firms test ways to connect Google’s FLoC to other data

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Post by dredmorbius »

pluc wrote: post #49
alias_neo wrote: post #42

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I switched to FF years ago. I used to root my Android phones but I'm getting too old (read; jaded) to care now, Firefox means that with uBlock I _still_ never see ads on my phone. I pay for apps I want to use, and I don't use apps which don't have an alternative to ad-supported, with one exception being Twitter and "Promoted" tweets, which I can spot and skip in a blink.

If you want to have fun with Twitter ads, block the advertiser whenever you see them. After two weeks or so you start to get really.. different stuff.

Howso?

(Not on Twitter, can't run the experiment myself.)

Re: Ad tech firms test ways to connect Google’s FLoC to other data

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Post by eingaeKaiy8ujie »

pdimitar wrote: post #56
eingaeKaiy8ujie wrote: post #50

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Not sure if this would help in your case but try to enable `gfx.webrender.all` or `layers.acceleration.force-enabled` in `about:config` if it's not already enabled.

Only the second one was disabled, enabled it. Thanks for the tip!

In that case it won't make a difference I think, `gfx.webrender.all` should override `layers.acceleration.force-enabled`.

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Post by esnard »

pluc wrote: post #49
alias_neo wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I switched to FF years ago. I used to root my Android phones but I'm getting too old (read; jaded) to care now, Firefox means that with uBlock I _still_ never see ads on my phone. I pay for apps I want to use, and I don't use apps which don't have an alternative to ad-supported, with one exception being Twitter and "Promoted" tweets, which I can spot and skip in a blink.

If you want to have fun with Twitter ads, block the advertiser whenever you see them. After two weeks or so you start to get really.. different stuff.

Can you elaborate? I'm not sure if this is something I would prefer to current ads, or something I would want to avoid.

Re: Ad tech firms test ways to connect Google’s FLoC to other data

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Post by alias_neo »

eingaeKaiy8ujie wrote: post #48
alias_neo wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I switched to FF years ago. I used to root my Android phones but I'm getting too old (read; jaded) to care now, Firefox means that with uBlock I _still_ never see ads on my phone. I pay for apps I want to use, and I don't use apps which don't have an alternative to ad-supported, with one exception being Twitter and "Promoted" tweets, which I can spot and skip in a blink.

For Android I can also recommend Bromite. It's Chromium-based with a built-in ad blocker and focus on anti-fingerprinting. https://www.bromite.org/

Thanks for the suggestion.

I currently see no reason to switch from FF which I use everywhere and benefit from Sync. Hopefully someone else will find it of interest.

Re: Ad tech firms test ways to connect Google’s FLoC to other data

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Post by alias_neo »

pluc wrote: post #49
alias_neo wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I switched to FF years ago. I used to root my Android phones but I'm getting too old (read; jaded) to care now, Firefox means that with uBlock I _still_ never see ads on my phone. I pay for apps I want to use, and I don't use apps which don't have an alternative to ad-supported, with one exception being Twitter and "Promoted" tweets, which I can spot and skip in a blink.

If you want to have fun with Twitter ads, block the advertiser whenever you see them. After two weeks or so you start to get really.. different stuff.

When you say "block", do you mean Twitter block the account which is the Advertiser?
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