▲ 260 ▼ Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome (arstechnica.com) submitted 2 years ago by teft@startrek.website to c/technology@beehaw.org 68 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] bquintb@midwest.social 5 points 2 years ago (3 children) Does anyone know if this affect Brave? I'm pretty sure it's based off of Chrome permalink fedilink source hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] RoboRay@kbin.social 23 points 2 years ago Brave essentially has done this all along. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Solaris1789@jlai.lu 15 points 2 years ago* Brave is based on chromium which probably wont have too much dystopian tracking stuff unlike proprietary chrome (and they remove it anyways). People should still switch to firefox though permalink fedilink source parent [–] pkulak@beehaw.org 8 points 2 years ago They will add this to the long list of things they patch out. But at some point, maintaining these patches is going to be more work than they can handle. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] RoboRay@kbin.social 23 points 2 years ago Brave essentially has done this all along. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Solaris1789@jlai.lu 15 points 2 years ago* Brave is based on chromium which probably wont have too much dystopian tracking stuff unlike proprietary chrome (and they remove it anyways). People should still switch to firefox though permalink fedilink source parent
[–] pkulak@beehaw.org 8 points 2 years ago They will add this to the long list of things they patch out. But at some point, maintaining these patches is going to be more work than they can handle. permalink fedilink source parent