Google Chrome rolls out new ad privacy controls as it (slowly) bids farewell to cookies

Monologue, 11 months ago

they use FLoC now to track their users so they can afford to drop the cookies

joelthelion, 11 months ago

Exactly, they’re trying to kill the competition but they’re obviously not going to damage their business.

HootinNHollerin, 11 months ago

Anyone who uses chrome doesn’t care about their privacy

dismalnow, 11 months ago

Which is why it boggles my mind that every company I have worked for uses it as the stock alternative to Edge over Firefox.

SkySyrup, 11 months ago

The reason is (what I was told) because they don’t have as fine-grained control of Firefox as they have with Chrome on Windows.

TurnItOff_OnAgain, 11 months ago

Correct. Chrome and edge have many many group policy options to mass control fleets of machines. Easily discoverable and configurable. I’m not sure if it is still this way, but Firefox GPO was always janky, and you always ended up needing to resort to a local file for policy stuff that was a pain to manage.

dismalnow, 11 months ago

Sys admins are already worked to death, so anything that can be done to simplify makes perfect sense.

rastilin, 11 months ago

Didn't it turn out that Chrome was reporting every site it visited back to Google? Apparently it was a "bug" that was only meant to happen on Instagram and not everywhere but... It doesn't take a huge leap of thinking to suspect how incredibly convenient it is for Google's telemetry.

n3cr0, 11 months ago

Breaking loose the discussion: Whats the better add-on: adguard or ublock origin?

startlefrenzy, 11 months ago

The general consensus is ublock origin. It’s best on Firefox and I’ve had no issues with it

watson387, 11 months ago

A lot of the internet is unusable without ublock origin IMO.

dismalnow, 11 months ago

Especially on mobile. News sites are legit impossible to use, let alone tolerate.

Flaky, 11 months ago

I use AdGuard on my iPad, they’re probably the best ad blocker for iOS. But yeah, uBlock Origin is the go-to everywhere else.

6mementomori, 11 months ago

adnauseam!

kiwifoxtrot, 11 months ago

Adnaseum is better. It actively tries to help websites by “clicking through” all tracking ads without accepting a return payload so it is safe for you. This means the website you are browsing gets the income from the ad clicks and you have an ad free experience. This also obsficates your online presence by clicking everything.

deweydecibel, 11 months ago

That’s not going to be very useful for very long. Advertisers will very quickly wise up and find a way to detect this.

kiwifoxtrot, 11 months ago

The plugin has been active for 4+ years and still works. It will get detected as more people use Firefox.

Voyajer, 11 months ago

Adnas, even though it's based on ublock, I've noticed it doesn't catch an ad occasionally even when set up the same.

deweydecibel, 11 months ago

uBlock. Adguard is probably fine for what it is but uBlock Origins is far and away the gold standard.