jus found a cool lil button that seems to disable the chrome ad tracking nonsense, thought i'd share

@privacydingus What are you referring to? Ads appear in every browser without a built-in ad blocker.

Is there a browser you recommend instead?

@markstos if you peep the date you will see i originally posted this half a year ago, it is a joke linked this story: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/09/how-turn-googles-privacy-sandbox-ad-tracking-and-why-you-should

if someone asks me which browser I use for normal browsing I say firefox as well as some other firefox/gecko-based options (librewolf, mullvad etc.)

im not keen on recommending things to be honest, but given the things google wanna do in the browser it's easy to say that not recommending chrome is advisable

How To Turn Off Google’s “Privacy Sandbox” Ad Tracking—and Why You Should

Google has rolled out "Privacy Sandbox," a Chrome feature first announced back in 2019 that, among other things, exchanges third-party cookies—the most common form of tracking technology—for what the company is now calling "Topics." Topics is a response to pushback against Google’s proposed...

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@markstos @privacydingus Librewolf with ublock origin activated (already built in) and the I still don't care about cookies extensions activated.
@catdad @markstos @privacydingus no need for an extra extension, uBlock has an "Annoyances" filter that you can enable which will decline all cookie consents automatically.
@gianmarcogg03 @markstos @privacydingus lovely! I'll engage that as well. Many thanks