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Google Chrome pushes ahead with targeted ads based on your browser history (www.theregister.com)
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Google Chrome pushes ahead with targeted ads based on your browser history::YMMV, based on where you are

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[–] 26 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

My company uses G Suite extensively, and I exclusively use Firefox. I haven't found a single thing that doesn't work in Firefox thus far.

Some lawyer somewhere will wind up with a fat payday if some important feature of Gmail/Sheets/Docs gets locked to Chrome exclusively, as soon as anyone notices.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Unrelated to G Suite, Google search on mobile should work perfectly fine on Firefox, but Google has decided anyone not using chrome will get a "mobile" version of the site. There's an addon that fixes that by just changing the user-agent string.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Latest thing I encountered, virtual backgrounds in Google Meet.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    They work great for me in chromium based browsers like Arc or Brave

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    And those are basically Chrome.

    WebKit, Gecko, and other rendering engines don’t always get full compatibility, even if they’re super standards compliant.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago

    They use the chrome rendering engine but they are not chrome. You get the best of both worlds. Compatibility with your corporate g suite whatever with a security/privacy-first mindset (at least with Brave)

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