▲ 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
[–] lloram239@feddit.de 3 points 2 years ago (2 children) Ungoogle-Chromium, Brave, Vivaldi, Librewolf, anything that isn't paid by Google. That they are still based on Chrome or Firefox doesn't really matter, since they remove the undesirable parts of them. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] unfnknblvbl@beehaw.org 6 points 2 years ago they are still based on Chrome or Firefox doesn't really matter, since they remove the undesirable parts of them. Actually it does matter, since Google are killing off the ability for ad blockers to work with a new manifest specification in Chromium. permalink fedilink source parent [–] eleanor@social.hamington.net 6 points 2 years ago In the case of Brave and Vivaldi, they add their own undesirable parts (Brave adds crypto bullshit and Vivaldi is closed-source, so $DEITY knows what they're adding). Librewolf is open and doesn't contribute to the Chromium monoculture; so it's the best option permalink fedilink source parent
[–] unfnknblvbl@beehaw.org 6 points 2 years ago they are still based on Chrome or Firefox doesn't really matter, since they remove the undesirable parts of them. Actually it does matter, since Google are killing off the ability for ad blockers to work with a new manifest specification in Chromium. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] eleanor@social.hamington.net 6 points 2 years ago In the case of Brave and Vivaldi, they add their own undesirable parts (Brave adds crypto bullshit and Vivaldi is closed-source, so $DEITY knows what they're adding). Librewolf is open and doesn't contribute to the Chromium monoculture; so it's the best option permalink fedilink source parent