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Google’s new Topics API makes users vulnerable to fingerprinting attacks (www.theregister.com)
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Google has stated it plans to address developers’ concerns by “making web publishers promise not to abuse the API”.

Google’s new browser-based tracking functionality available via their “Topics API” has sparked numerous concerns recently, including fear that the heightened communication of web browser history could lead to “fingerprinting attacks” which could be used to track users across devices by profiling recent web history.

When prompted with this issue, Google started their short-term solution is to have web developers who enroll in the new Topics API platform take pledge that they will not abuse the new tool, whatever that means.

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[–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

If it's otherwise Chrome or bust, I'd honestly suggest considering Edge. It's not like internet explorer used to be. It's also not anywhere near as good for privacy as vivaldi or firefox, but it might be better than chrome - I don't really know. But some people really like it now.

If you're some who's tried firefox in the past already, I'll note it's change quite a bit over the years. I used to dislike it but I like it now (on desktop).

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    Edge has some genuinely nice features, like vertical tabs and split window browsing.

    But I wouldn't suggest either personally, especially in the context of all the crap going on with Chrome. I imagine anything Chrome implements will be immediately back ported to Edge, such as WEI etc. I can't see why MS wouldn't.

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