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Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome (arstechnica.com)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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If you can, use Firefox.

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[–] 418 points 2 years ago* (5 children)

Chrome got blacklisted by our IT dept because of this.

"Ads are attack vectors."

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

    Chrome hasn't worked for months on our network due to this and was removed recently with the latest updates last week

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

    Lfg

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Lfg?

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  • [–] 106 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    And mine is making the switch from Firefox to Chrome next year. I'm so fucking mad about it.

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  • [–] 85 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Ditto. The security department made the push because too many people were installing unapproved addons like ublock. They are mandating chrome, "for security". LMAO

    The irony is that people are signing into chrome with personal gmail and leaking stuff.

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  • [–] 94 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    You can lockdown user addons in both chrome and firefox via GPO. You can also auto install them with the same policies if you like. Both browsers have enterpise admx files available.

    Your security department sounds like they are bad at their jobs.

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  • [–] 27 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Came here to say the exact same thing. It really is amazing to me just how many IT professionals are bad at their jobs.

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  • [–] 30 points 2 years ago

    Tech is a boogie man to many executypes. I've seen plenty of IT pros that were in over their head but smooth enough con men. If they keep coming up with things to throw money at/trim money out of convincingly they have long and successful careers.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Meanwhile, I'm over here unable to find an IT job :')

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    When I lost my job over the summer I put my resume on dice and immediately had 3-4 guys with Indian accents calling me every day. I found a new job within a week. I still get emails and texts though, can't put the genie back in the bottle

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    Switch to Edge would make sense due to how well it integrates with things like your Entra ID account, choosing Chrome now is bizarre. We also had Chrome as primary browser for years, but now we are pushing Edge as primary browser. Firefox was and still is an option for us as well.

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

    Meanwhile my work mandates that we must use Edge. It's fine from a usability perspective but I would much prefer my beloved Firefox at work, especially with the tab groups they have where you can have multiple different sessions

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    I've been using Edge at work. I literally made the decision as "this is a Microsoft heavy shop, Microsoft is pushing Edge hard, and Bing is kinda good now, so let's see how this goes" and I haven't had a need to switch back.

    I use Edge's different profiles for testing, work stuff and personal stuff to keep them nicely separated and prevent any from bleeding too hard into eachother

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