Hacker NewsJun 7, 2025

Washington Post's Privacy Tip: Stop Using Chrome, Delete Meta Apps (and Yandex)

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/06/07/035249/washington-posts-privacy-tip-stop-using-chrome-delete-metas-apps-and-yandex

#HackerNews #PrivacyTip #StopUsingChrome #DeleteMetaApps #Yandex #WashingtonPost

Washington Post's Privacy Tip: Stop Using Chrome, Delete Meta's Apps (and Yandex) - Slashdot

Meta's Facebook and Instagram apps "were siphoning people's data through a digital back door for months," writes a Washington Post tech columnist, citing researchers who found no privacy setting could've stopped what Meta and Yandex were doing, since those two companies "circumvented privacy and sec...

Dr. StolzJan 18, 2024
Ну кто бы сомневался. 😎
https://4pda.to/2024/01/18/423211/google_priznalas_chto_sledit_za_polzovatelyami_chrome_v_rezhime_inkognito/
#Google #Chrome #stopusingchrome
Hartmut GoebelJan 9, 2024

Da du das unkommentiert postest, entsteht der Eindruck, als würde Chrome zu einer der Vorreiter beim Datenschutz. Dem ist nicht so!

Chrome ist Googles Werkzeug, sein Monopol und seine Macht im Internet noch weiter auszubauen.

Hört auf #chomr zu benutzen!

#stopUsingChrome

https://mastodon.social/@dangillmor/111717782381752829

@Linuxkumpel

Show threadiam-py-testSep 10, 2023
Credit to @stephenhawk8054 for this: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/discussions/2714#discussioncomment-6959723
Google is adding #AttributionReporting to Chrome: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/privacy-sandbox/attribution-reporting/
This is another reason to #stopusingchrome. Google is an ad company, and they have made it abundantly clear that #Chrome is just another tool to further that goal.
`$permissions` · uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues · Discussion #2714

@gorhill Seems AdGuard has implemented permissions policy modifier via $permissions, did they do anything different than gorhill/uBlock@af6c992 ?

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cybik Jul 24, 2023

It is Monday.

* https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity is still not unlocked (they said they'd unlock it)
* https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity is still around and live
* https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity is still a bad proposal that would make the web into a locked platform and Google its kingmaker, per Chrome marketshare

This *must not* pass.

@w3c #WebDRM #stopusingchrome #chrome #GoogleAntiTrust #AntiTrust

GitHub - RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity

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Paolo RedaelliDec 11, 2021
@hackernews just #stopUsingChrome. Switch to #firefox