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Chrome now ships with a user-tracking ad platform baked in (arstechnica.com)

submitted 1 year ago by tblFlip@pawb.social to c/tech@pawb.social

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Google's browser not only got new chrome, it now also uses keeps track of all websites you visit to generate a topic list for ads that is shared with websites directly. Nobody asked for that.

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[–] gndagreborn@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I remember using Chrome for the very first time after ditching IE. It was an amazing and glorious experience compared to how shitty IE was. Then I learned about how invasive it was. Like millions of other people, I just ignored it for years. I hoped that readjusting my 'privacy' settings would be enough. The writing on the wall for me was MV3 and FLoC.

A few years ago I switched to Firefox and never looked back. In the back of my mind, I had hoped chrome would tame it's insatiable hunger for user data, but this news has proved to me that it will only continue to get worse...

The most depressing thing this article says is the last line "and people will probably still not switch to Firefox". I am just sad now, not angry.

[–] xetem@pawb.social 1 points 1 year ago

Tbh, the thing that got me to ditch Chrome was some of the headaches induced with it's performance. To this day, every time I've tried cold and warm booting browsers as a comparison, Chrome is always the slowest (never tested against IE because why bother). Firefox having privacy as a focus is honestly just a bonus.