Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome
arstechnica.com
Chrome now directly tracks users, generates a "topic" list it shares with advertisers.

Google is now rolling out a system where Chrome directly tracks your activity and shares its summary with advertisers.

Also Firefox is faster as of like two months ago.

It takes five minutes to switch browsers, and the difference is so little that you'll often forget you did it.

  • Harajukum [any]
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    1 year ago

    yeah uh. it keep crashing the shit out of my PC so i just use edge, imported all the extensions and never looked back.

    • stardust [she/her]
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      1 year ago

      Edge is still Chromium, so it's not really any better.

      • Harajukum [any]
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        1 year ago

        true. but its less bloatware on my PC, ill probably switch to firefox or something in the future

        • stardust [she/her]
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          1 year ago

          I mean Firefox is pretty lightweight, not sure you're getting much benefit from not installing it.

          For me, the privacy concerns of Chromium based browsers combined with Microsoft shoving Edge in our faces means I'll never use their browser.

          Then again I only use Windows for work, I'm a filthy Linux user for anything personal

      • stardust [she/her]
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        1 year ago

        I'm pretty sure they were talking about Chrome, but that's just how interpreted it.