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teft@startrek.website to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago

Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome

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Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome

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teft@startrek.website to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago
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Chrome now directly tracks users, generates a "topic" list it shares with advertisers.
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    I honestly don’t get why people think chromium browsers are good, for example Firefox in my use case is far faster than chrome… by a long shot. Also if you want to argue…

    https://treeherder.mozilla.org/perfherder/graphs?highlightAlerts=1&highlightChangelogData=1&highlightCommonAlerts=0&series=mozilla-central,3735773,1,13&series=mozilla-central,3412459,1,13&timerange=86400

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      Mostly for increased privacy but also additional features. Firefox and it’s forks are usually relatively limited in feature set.

      Speed isn’t a problem on any of them for me.

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      something about the way it [chrome] handles memory isolation means i get fewer blue screens at work with all my bloated browser tools loaded at the same time. I have to have ~15 tabs open. It is not my laptop, so I cant go around experimenting with plugins much.

      then again who gives a flying fart if chrome tracks me while i use the same internal browser tools day in and day out?

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        I cannot drag my tabs out properly. Its been the dealbreaker for many years for me, they dont fix it, but i just deal with it now because google is too evik.

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          That was also my experience with Firefox. I tried it one time because I kept hearing it was better than chrome, and then the absolute first thing I noticed is that they can’t get tab dragging right.

          I don’t care how much more “private” it is than chrome. If you can’t even get the first impression on absolute basic UI elements right, I simply have no faith in your browser

          Maybe I’ll use Firefox when it matures a bit

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            Its been around for like 20 years though

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