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Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome (arstechnica.com)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

This line of thinking only works if you live as a hermit at the edge of the forest. Living in a society means dealing with consequences of the choices of others.

As far as browsers are concerned, having Firefox is pointless if 95% of websites will refuse to serve you content because you don't have some cryptographically signed chrome web DRM enabled.