On Google’s Policy Change Towards Fingerprinting
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On Google’s Policy Change Towards Fingerprinting
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Re: On Google’s Policy Change Towards Fingerprinting
#2The simplest, readily available solution ---use Brave or LibreWolf.
These can't prevent all fingerprinting but they can make it less reliable and more difficult and costly for a fingerprint to be relayed back to the mother ship.
Personalized advertising is one of the dumbest ideas of the 21st century. Studies show it is less effective than context sensitive ads and it costs more. Participants in ad auctions are essentially flying blind with little reliable, verifiable insight into the process.
Re: On Google’s Policy Change Towards Fingerprinting
#3The simplest, readily available solution ---use Brave or LibreWolf. These can't prevent all fingerprinting but they can make it less reliable and more difficult and costly for a fingerprint to be relayed back to the mother ship. Personalized advertising is one of the dumbest ideas of the 21st century. Studies show it is less effective than context sensitive ads and it costs more. Participants in ad auctions are essen…
Simplest solution is Firefox or Safari, not another Chromium browser or niche Firefox Fork.
Re: On Google’s Policy Change Towards Fingerprinting
#4The simplest, readily available solution ---use Brave or LibreWolf. These can't prevent all fingerprinting but they can make it less reliable and more difficult and costly for a fingerprint to be relayed back to the mother ship. Personalized advertising is one of the dumbest ideas of the 21st century. Studies show it is less effective than context sensitive ads and it costs more. Participants in ad auctions are essen…
Ah yes, Brave, the browser that highjacks websites to inject their own referral code, that's the right browser to use for privacy conscious people.
Re: On Google’s Policy Change Towards Fingerprinting
#5The simplest, readily available solution ---use Brave or LibreWolf. These can't prevent all fingerprinting but they can make it less reliable and more difficult and costly for a fingerprint to be relayed back to the mother ship. Personalized advertising is one of the dumbest ideas of the 21st century. Studies show it is less effective than context sensitive ads and it costs more. Participants in ad auctions are essen…
Ah yes, Brave, the browser that highjacks websites to inject their own referral code, that's the right browser to use for privacy conscious people.
What's your suggestion? Genuine question. I'm on Firefox.
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#7Use Firefox. Consumers need to wean away from spam companies.
Re: On Google’s Policy Change Towards Fingerprinting
#8The simplest, readily available solution ---use Brave or LibreWolf. These can't prevent all fingerprinting but they can make it less reliable and more difficult and costly for a fingerprint to be relayed back to the mother ship. Personalized advertising is one of the dumbest ideas of the 21st century. Studies show it is less effective than context sensitive ads and it costs more. Participants in ad auctions are essen…
Ah yes, Brave, the browser that highjacks websites to inject their own referral code, that's the right browser to use for privacy conscious people.
Well, I don't know what they do with it bc I do not see ads on Brave Browser - it's an entirely different Internet.
Re: On Google’s Policy Change Towards Fingerprinting
#9I guess it'd make a difference if anybody'd been following the policy or Google'd been doing anything effective to enforce it. I find this, um, improbable.
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#10He may or may not want the attention, but https://ladybird.org/ is coming along surprisingly well.
In the meantime Safari/Firefox as appropriate.
It's a shame really, because as a piece of software engineering Chrome is incredible.