Mastodawn

Aug 23, 2023

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

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Brendan Jones Aug 24, 2023

@dragonmantank @simon_brooke Yeah if you’ve got an Android phone there’s zero reason not to use Firefox. I’m on iOS and I use it, but it’s obviously hamstrung by Apple enforcing all browsers being WebKit based. Bloody Apple. I can’t believe the WebKit limitation hasn’t been stopped by antitrust litigation or something ☹️

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Gray (broken account)

@Brendanjones @dragonmantank @simon_brooke If you have an Android phone, FireFox should be avoided, it's a security nightmare. Compartmentalization on mobile FF is essentially non-existent. I hate Google Chrome as much as the next guy, but the Android FF is not the solution.