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Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome (arstechnica.com)
submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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If you can, use Firefox.

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[–] SUPERcrazy3530 44 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Does this only affect Chrome or all Chromium based browsers? Are Brave and Edge going to be implementing this too?

[–] takeda 50 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Just Chrome in this instance, as it spies for Google. Any anti ad blocking features go though to all chromium based browsers and it is better to switch Firefox. If that browser disappears we won't have a good alternative anymore.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 9 months ago

It is better to switch to Firefox. But chromium forks can generally do whatever they want, it's just a matter of maintenance burden. e.g. nothing is stopping a Chromium fork like Brave from running a manifest v2 compatible appstore, but it'll cost money to make, maintain, and operate, plus you have less discoverability as an app developer when using a smaller app store.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Can we be certain this isn't in the obsfucated binary blobs provided by Google? How can people act like Chromium and Chrome based browsers are free from Google BS when most of them still use precompiled hunks of executable provided by Google that we can't see into?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Do they use the binary blobs? I figured MS, Vivaldi, the random Chromium in the distro repos stripped those out or replaced them with their own secret bins before compilation.

[–] Ghostalmedia 28 points 9 months ago

Just Chrome

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago

Lemmy pushes hard for Firefox, but Vivaldi has not implemented this and will likely hold out as long as possible on it.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

Supporting Chromium is to support Google’s control on the web. You choose.