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Google enables advertisers a look into your browsing history...

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

My ad " you like thick women, Stoicism and band tees? well do we have a goth girl for you, limited item sold, not responsible for broken car windows or torched house, all purchases are final.

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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] 10 points 1 year ago (3 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?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

And that’s why I will continue to use Chrome only for work. Yuck.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

FYI, while this is a terrible move, it does not allow advertisers to see your browsing history like you said. Google looks into your history, the advertiser gives them ads and Google serves the ads to the users they think will like it. The advertiser never sees any of your data. Ironically, Google's advertising system is the safest compared to systems like Meta's.

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

Time to move most of my browsing to FF. It's already somewhere around 80% FF.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (12 children)

These sneaky foxes should be fired.

EDIT: it seems nobody wants to fire a fox. That almost drives me to the edge but I guess I'll just try to be brave and think of it as a safari.

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

Sounds like a great and exciting innovation. I can’t wait to see more relevant ads based on my own personal interests!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Seems that 5 people can't read sarcasm and is prolly part of the /s gang

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

I looked up "audiophool" on Chrome and I looked in my ad preferences and it started recommending stuff about speakers

edit: grammar

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Fucking hell I am sick of having to switch browsers every few years.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Why would you need to? Did you ever trust chrome? And google?

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

Great, can't wait to see ads for take out food, and small appliance repair.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Jokes on you Google! I delete my browser history every 30 seconds!

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