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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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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Honestly, yes you guys should move to Firefox. I pretty much stayed on Chrome until chromium Edge was a thing. I tried that and ended up using that until they bloated it to hell and back, so I am back to using Firefox. Honestly just use anything but Chrome.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

How do I turn it off if I use Firefox already?

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

Vivaldi is going to block this. It is a thing being built into the engine and they are going to be blocking it in their browser.

I know people say Vivaldi is slow but they've done some refactoring recently. Gave it a whirl and it's as fast as Edge now on my old crappy laptop.

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

I'll just continue to use Ungoogled Chromium and Librewolf

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

How long will it take for people to stop using Chrome?

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

Chekhov's Browser

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't mind this at all, but it's funny that I barely if ever get ads that would make me want to buy something. I don't even use an adblocker on my android phone and i use chrome on me laptop

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This how dystopia is created. There is always some percentage of humans who fails to see future complications and ok with everything capitalism does.

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

You'd think that fediverse users would understand that the most..

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Is this not better for me though? If I'm gonna have ads forced on me, they might as well be relevant.

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