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Google Chrome pushes ahead with targeted ads based on your browser history (www.theregister.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Google enables advertisers a look into your browsing history...

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (4 children)

How would I go about transferring my stored passwords from Chrome to Firefox?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

When you first install Firefox, it offers it during the initial setup

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Switch to a dedicated password manager - Bitwarden for example.

Then you can try any browser. Firefox definitely wouldn't be my choice but it is better than Chrome.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

What browser would you recommend then?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I will always shill for Bitwarden and will die on this hill. Free for most features and for $10 a year you get TOTP generation and the integration is so bloody well thought-through. Insane value and two thumbs up (or three, if I move to Fukushima).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Cross device, works with biometrics… da bomb.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's a good idea to stop storing your passwords in your browser and use a password manager instead.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When your browser is chrome, I totally understand. Otherwise, why?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Because it's more secure, and portable. A password manager can fill information on programs and apps as well as the browser. It's also separate from the browser, so you don't have a single point of failure. Idk about now, but several years ago when I did use the Chrome password storage, a malicious user could retrieve passwords from the browser as long as they had physical access to the computer.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

You can export from Chrome as a CSV file then import to Firefox.