'Phased Out'–Google Confirms Bad News for All 3B Chrome Users
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#2Google genuinely built an attempt to make the web tracking free. To everyone but browsers. It's a neat attempt & I pour out libations to the attempt.
If the commentariat hadn't been so persistently snipey about Google throughout (assuming only worst faiths), maybe the broader advertising industry might not have achieved the obstructionist regulatory capture that really slammed on the brakes for doing anything different and maybe perhaps possibly better.
Instead we all get tracked forever.
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#3I hope this news travels to more gen pop. My 82yo MIL uses Firefox because she’s concerned about the acceleratingly encroaching “police state”. That being said as an IT manager, it’s hard to tell my employees to incur the friction of broken Google services (Meet, a few others) for the intangible privacy benefits.
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#4Google genuinely built an attempt to make the web tracking free. To everyone but browsers. It's a neat attempt & I pour out libations to the attempt. If the commentariat hadn't been so persistently snipey about Google throughout (assuming only worst faiths), maybe the broader advertising industry might not have achieved the obstructionist regulatory capture that really slammed on the brakes for doing anything differe…
Google also shot itself in the foot with manifest v3 killing ublock origin. I almost liked Chrome for a while until they got rid of the only thing that made it usable for me.
I don't care if Google was trying to do something good. Good things accomplished through evil means are evil.
After all, it isn't as if Google isn't already tracking us itself, selling the data it has gleaned from us to advertisers, and then helping the advertisers specifically target us based on its insane amount of data on each of us.
So whinging about how one thing that might have been a little better died due to their evil overlords's middle managers mismanaging it is a waste of energy.
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#5“Google’s Privacy Sandbox is officially dead” would be a better headline.
Re: 'Phased Out'–Google Confirms Bad News for All 3B Chrome Users
#6Google genuinely built an attempt to make the web tracking free. To everyone but browsers. It's a neat attempt & I pour out libations to the attempt. If the commentariat hadn't been so persistently snipey about Google throughout (assuming only worst faiths), maybe the broader advertising industry might not have achieved the obstructionist regulatory capture that really slammed on the brakes for doing anything differe…
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#7Google genuinely built an attempt to make the web tracking free. To everyone but browsers. It's a neat attempt & I pour out libations to the attempt. If the commentariat hadn't been so persistently snipey about Google throughout (assuming only worst faiths), maybe the broader advertising industry might not have achieved the obstructionist regulatory capture that really slammed on the brakes for doing anything differe…
Can you help me understand how Privacy Sandbox was going to make the web tracking-free?
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#8I hope this news travels to more gen pop. My 82yo MIL uses Firefox because she’s concerned about the acceleratingly encroaching “police state”. That being said as an IT manager, it’s hard to tell my employees to incur the friction of broken Google services (Meet, a few others) for the intangible privacy benefits.
What Google services are broken on Firefox?
My anecdata is that GSuite works completely fine daily driving Firefox.
Re: 'Phased Out'–Google Confirms Bad News for All 3B Chrome Users
#9I hope this news travels to more gen pop. My 82yo MIL uses Firefox because she’s concerned about the acceleratingly encroaching “police state”. That being said as an IT manager, it’s hard to tell my employees to incur the friction of broken Google services (Meet, a few others) for the intangible privacy benefits.
What Google services are broken on Firefox? My anecdata is that GSuite works completely fine daily driving Firefox.
Every once in a while google meet is notably worse with firefox, or some feature is only enabled on chrome. Not a big deal.
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#10Google genuinely built an attempt to make the web tracking free. To everyone but browsers. It's a neat attempt & I pour out libations to the attempt. If the commentariat hadn't been so persistently snipey about Google throughout (assuming only worst faiths), maybe the broader advertising industry might not have achieved the obstructionist regulatory capture that really slammed on the brakes for doing anything differe…
Google also shot itself in the foot with manifest v3 killing ublock origin. I almost liked Chrome for a while until they got rid of the only thing that made it usable for me. I don't care if Google was trying to do something good. Good things accomplished through evil means are evil. After all, it isn't as if Google isn't already tracking us itself, selling the data it has gleaned from us to advertisers, and then hel…
> Google also shot itself in the foot with manifest v3 killing ublock origin.
Yeah, I’m migrating away from Chrome over that.