Google is gradually introducing a new method for delivering targeted ads in Chrome that aims to bypass the controversy surrounding cookies by using browsing history instead. This…
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This is the way.
Firefox gets like 90% of its revenue from making Google the default search engine.
If you want to keep Firefox independent consider donating:
Bad advice. Donations to Mozilla go to the Foundation to fulfill it’s ‘mission’, whatever it is, whereas FF development is done by Mozilla Corp. which can’t legally take donations. Don’t waste your money.
I think you’re over thinking it. The foundation owns the corporation. The foundation has 10 principles. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Manifesto
If you agree with them, consider donating.
I’m not overthinking. It is what it is. You can’t donate directly to impulse FF development. But you may buy subscriptions to Pocket/Relay or Mozilla VPN.
That said, I frankly don’t know what Mozilla is up these days, nor I am interested in their survival. As far as I am concerned, they could disappear today and my life wouldn’t change a single bit. I’d prefer to donate money to really useful ORGs on the likes of archive, wikipedia, OSM, Arch Linux, EFF and so on. Today’s Mozilla is just a cash-grab mismanaged scam.
https://lunduke.locals.com/post/4387539/firefox-money-investigating-the-bizarre-finances-of-mozilla
A better way of turning it off is uninstalling it
Firefox is a real good choice.
Here’s how to turn that off:
- Uninstall Google Chrome
- Install Firefox, Ungoogled Chromium, or, heck, Vivaldi
- Stop trusting Google
There we go, problem solved.
Remember when websites were tracking us across websites like the Facebook pixel.
Now Google just like we ain’t need that.
here’s how to turn that off
Install firefox
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here’s how to turn that off
… use Firefox? How are we still talking about chrome here?
Edit: yes I know many still use Chrome. That’s exactly the problem. Google does shady shit, people shrug it off because insert whatever reason. Google likes that and plans the next shady shit. Rinse, repeat.
Many still use chrome
lmao
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How to turn it off: stop using chrome
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Best solution: Stop using Chrome.
It’s not the fastest nor the most feature rich anymore, not even the simplest.
Chrome is not a web browser anymore. It’s a ad browser.
To all the “use Firefox” people, my work website requires Chrome, so I appreciate this OP.
If it blocks you from opening the page if you use firefox, there is a firefox extension(agent switcher) to trick the website into thinking you are using a different OS or browser
If it doesnt work, you can use ungoogled chromium or chromium
Edit: if neither work, you can try to use the user agent switcher extension on chromium
You can use Chromium for that. Also it’s not a website then.
nope. thought so too until i had to install chrome in the middle of a meeting.
Also it’s not a website then.
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A website should be universal and not dependent on what browser you are using. I say that but we are all suffering from Chromeitis just like Internet Exploreritis in the 2000s…
Web devs never learn.
well i agree on what it should be, but that isn’t the case. i use firefox on my own time but have to use chrome to make a living. and no, the user agent isn’t the problem
Because what would be the practical difference between this “website” and Android app if Android base was available on others systems?
Both are dependent on specific runtime, both are API based, with special way to do persistant storage (usually not for user to view), both have restrictive permission system, both isolate apps from each other… The only difference is Chrome does not have centralized app store and still has compatibility with regular websites.
You can call it whatever you want, I need it for work. Also, Safari is Chromium and the site doesn’t work in Safari either. Whatever the Indian coders they contracted to make it did it in some way that only Chrome works.
But if you don’t want me to thank OP, fine. I withdraw my thanks.
Uhh, whoever told you that Safari was chromium played a good prank on you
Safari uses Apple’s own WebKit. Firefox uses Gecko. Besically every other browser uses Chromium.
Chromium is a fork of webkit Edge is now a fork of chromium Gecko/quantum do their own thing.
Aside from some edge cases in Linux land, those are the engines.
“Don’t be evil”.
I don’t remember chrome ever looking like that with that button on the top left, did they really use a picture of Firefox with a custom theme for their article about Chrome?
The image was first used on their site in another article in 2020.
Tineye turns up a lot of usages.
The original seems to be from shutterstock, which also has an alternate angle available. The artist describes it as “Google Chrome homepage on computer screen”.
In conclusion: idk if that’s firefox.
I think Firefox Australis with classic theme restorer could look like this, navigated to the Google Chrome homepage.
I think even very old Chrome had the settings menu where it is today, with a toolbox icon.
You guys are using chrome?
It sounds like Google could have done a much better job announcing and explaining how the new system works. This is a definite improvement in privacy over the “cookie” standard in advertising. I don’t know if turning this off just keeps you locked-in to using cookies, but it doesn’t turn off identification like a lot of you seem to imply.
To those of you out there not using an adblocker: this new system eliminates the use of advertiser-based cookies. All your identification is based on a minimal number of categories based on your browsing history. It doesn’t send your actual history to an advertiser, just some (5, I think?) topics that have held your interest within the last few weeks. I’m sure there’s a list of these keywords sent to the ad-server so it can decide what to send. I don’t really care what they are, because I’m in the next group.
To those of you out there using Firefox and/or an adblocker: carry on, nothing to see here. Keep promoting your favorite non-Chrome based browser and adblocker.
