We need to collectively switch to Firefox and Brave.
To Firefox only. Switching to Brave does not improve the Chromium engine hegemony.
Why does it matter if the underlying engine is shared amongst multiple browsers?
Ad tech firms test ways to connect Google’s FLoC to other data
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#73Oh, no! This means I might still get relevant ads that relate to my unique interests as an individual instead of some least common denominator cookie cutter garbage ad.
Personally, I prefer my ads to be as unrelated as possible to my unique interests. That way I can ignore the unwanted distraction more easily, or even be amused by it.
Every time I see an ad that relates to my current unique interests I feel spied upon and concerned that my private life is leaking without my knowledge or control.
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#75Re: Ad tech firms test ways to connect Google’s FLoC to other data
#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
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,…
> Often times pages load very slowly, we're talking 5-8 seconds [...] I have a bunch of privacy extensions
If you are using uBlock Origin, you may want to see if un-checking "Uncloak canonical names" option in the "Settings" pane in the dashboard makes a difference.[1]
There have been reports of slow page load with some network configurations, and this has been linked to DNS lookup in uBO.[2]
Chromium-based browsers do not support CNAME-uncloaking, and so this would explain why the issue is not present in Google Chrome.
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[1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Dashboard:-Settings#u...
Re: Ad tech firms test ways to connect Google’s FLoC to other data
#77We need to collectively switch to Firefox and Brave.
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.
Same, but I use twitter mobile in FF and ad block. I'd prefer a subscription option to ads and an app that's all up in my shit.
I have a few apps that I just use the mobile web version. The bonus is that there is no app collecting gps and lists of installed apps and such, though, in theory, the new permissions help with that.
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#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
To Firefox only. Switching to Brave does not improve the Chromium engine hegemony.
How does switching to FF improve "Chromium engine hegemony?" FF is not Chromium based.
That's the point. Using a Chromium based browser just further cements Google's grasp on the web.
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#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
To Firefox only. Switching to Brave does not improve the Chromium engine hegemony.
Chromium/Blink is an open source project (forked from Webkit, forked from KHTML).
Chromium/Blink is pretty much only maintained by Google. Google decides what goes in and what doesn't. It's a pretense of open source, except when it serves them.