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Google Chrome now targets ads based on your browser history, here's how to turn that off
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this post was submitted on 07 Sep 2023
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A better way of turning it off is uninstalling it
On desktop, I'm really wondering why people use it. I mean it's not pre-installed for windows, what makes people choose Chrome in 2023?
To people who don't know any better it's become synonymous with "the internet", much like Internet Explorer in its heyday.
Also, websites saying that they only work with Chrome is a pretty big deal.
My apartment's website landing page shows a message that you can only access the website from chrome and safari. However, if you go to any sub url, like mainurl.com/login, it works perfectly fine on Firefox.
Same. I get an “access this site on Chrome instead” pop up every time I clock into work. I can just click through it and Firefox works just fine. But the site is hard coded to give that pop up to anyone not using chrome, even though Firefox works just fine.
I eventually got tired of it, and just used uBlock Origin’s picker tool to delete it.
I am lol'ing at all the messages freaking out about my browser on most websites when I use Internet Explorer on the shop computer that still runs windows 7 and is slow as shit. It's one of those garbo "all-in-one" desktop screen things which is basically just laptop parts from like 2008 crammed in a monitor
I've seen a lot less of that recently and I'm very glad