Updated Chrome today, and was immediately given a prompt about how my browsing preferences would be directly used to feed me ads.
Chrome auto-enabled a feature that sends sites info to send me personalized ads based on browsing history, the ability for sites to determine what I like and update the ads as I browse, and the ability for sites to measure ad effectiveness.
These are built-in features of the browser now.
STOP USING CHROME
@ppatel @actualeyes @kev The issue isn't so much "OMG Chrome/Google is watching me" it's that now this information is available to third parties directly via a browser API.
Yes, this was also available via 3rd party cookies, but there's a difference between it being backed into the browser versus ad networks.
@dragonmantank @ppatel @kev Right, for me, there are two issues.
1) The privacy policy changed to declare that Google will use your data for targeted ads via FLoC.
2) It's enabled by default.
By comparison, Mozilla blocks everything by default. And they make you aware when you are opening yourself to privacy issues.
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Thank you for checking these. btw, I do agree that in the long run the "stop using Chrome" advice is going to be best. As far as I can tell, it's not really possible to use YouTube safely except with Firefox or an unofficial tracking-restricted YouTube client https://blog.zgp.org/youtube-cleanup/
I use Firefox but hadn’t locked in the ad block features. I’ve been using Brave, which is based on a fork of Chrome. Working well at the moment.
@dragonmantank thx for the heads-up.
Will yeet #Chrome now from all systems!
@dragonmantank as others have said, I mainly use Firefox.
I also use Vivaldi when a site won't work properly in Firefox (which is becoming more common.) It uses the chromium engine, like Brave.
It's super buried but you get to the settings this way:
Settings -> Security and Privacy -> More Privacy Settings -> Ads -> Ad Privacy
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Strongly recommend #TorBrowser w highest Safety level and #uBlock added, as per how #TailOS provide Tor to #journalists. Great for browsing the #clearnet and onion sites. Put the #NoScript addon button in the topbar to easy enable js for trusted sites.
For #I2P we recommend a #Firefox based browser that is hardened like TorBrowser. A good place to start is the spyware.neocities.org site, and the #ArchlinuxWiki on #hardening Firefox-based browsers.
Sending people to https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/firefox is not going to give then a lot, as the article is years old and fifty versions behind. Firefox have made a lot of bad decision in that time frame, Such as they did enable the full tracking package on all US based browser a couple of years ago to collect data to there Cliqz #SpyWare browser
Cliqz is the first browser with built-in quick search and integrated privacy protection: anti-tracking, anti-phishing and ad blocker.
None of this is true. It is the opposed that happened
@dragonmantank @jerry
Yes, the site is only maintained and mirrored by volunteers and may have some old data. We provided it for their information on **other** browsers.
Not Firefox.
Other browsers that tend to reject #Mozilla's corrupt inclusion of #spyware tend to develop slower, while still being quick to include security fixes, and therefore the above site may have more up-to-date info on those.
The site was suggested by us with the ArchlinuxWiki resource, to help start one's journey.
The site was suggested by us with the ArchlinuxWiki resource, to help start one’s journey.
No doubt and at that time, when the article was never, it was also good.
However it is worth mention you should have some technical understanding on how the program is working to understand the text and extract the data to be able to search for more info. This is caused by the many name-changes in service name, values that fave disappeared and new once arise in the about:config
@dragonmantank @jerry
Yes, Mozilla are notorius for this and for simply changing settings without telling the user.
It is disappointing that Mozilla have been so compromised that grassroots engineers need to work hard to fix what they do, in alternative browsers that are forked from FFox.
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