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Attached: 1 image So this, from Firefox, is fucking toxic: https://mstdn.social/@Lokjo/112772496939724214 You might be aware Chrome— a browser made by an ad company— has been trying to claw back the limitations recently placed on ad networks by the death of third-party cookies, and added new features that gather and report data directly to ad networks. You'd know this because Chrome displayed a popup. If you're a Firefox user, what you probably don't know is Firefox added this feature and *has already turned it on without asking you*
  • AVincentInSpace@pawb.social
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    5 months ago

    I recommend … switching to a more privacy conscious browser such as Google Chrome.

    Chrome: mines literally everything about you without telling you, ties your entire browser history to your Google account, and makes predictions based on it, but asks you just this once for permission

    Firefox: fights for user privacy for decades, opposes FLoC, and then enables one privacy-friendly reporting technology without warning users

    This absolute galaxy brain over here: “Firefox is clearly worse”

  • megopie@beehaw.org
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    5 months ago

    Lots of non-Mozilla browsers based on the same browser engine for people tired of Mozilla doing stuff like this on Firefox, but who want to keep far away from browsers based on Google developed projects.

    Realistically any functional and stable browser is going to have to be based on one of the big browser engines, if only because plenty of major websites just won’t work with anything but a big name browser engine. I’d rather be on something based on Gecko (Mozilla) than Blink( Google) or WebKit (Apple)