Google Chrome now targets ads based on your browser history, here's how to turn that off

Google is gradually introducing a new method for delivering targeted ads in Chrome that aims to bypass the controversy surrounding cookies by using browsing history instead. This…

Instructions for a better browsing experience can be found at https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browsers/

Firefox gets like 90% of its revenue from making Google the default search engine.

If you want to keep Firefox independent consider donating:

https://donate.mozilla.org/en-US/?form=donate

Bad advice. Donations to Mozilla go to the Foundation to fulfill it’s ‘mission’, whatever it is, whereas FF development is done by Mozilla Corp. which can’t legally take donations. Don’t waste your money.

I think you’re over thinking it. The foundation owns the corporation. The foundation has 10 principles. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Manifesto

If you agree with them, consider donating.

A better way of turning it off is uninstalling it

On desktop, I’m really wondering why people use it. I mean it’s not pre-installed for windows, what makes people choose Chrome in 2023?

To people who don’t know any better it’s become synonymous with “the internet”, much like Internet Explorer in its heyday.

Also, websites saying that they only work with Chrome is a pretty big deal.

My apartment’s website landing page shows a message that you can only access the website from chrome and safari. However, if you go to any sub url, like mainurl.com/login, it works perfectly fine on Firefox.

I’ve seen a lot less of that recently and I’m very glad

I use chrome for all my work-related web apps simply because it’s more reliable(the app devs fault for not testing anything else)

However I’m also not super worried. My chrome browsing is entirely related to the work I do and all my personal web stuff is done in Firefox.

try ungoogled-chromium

There are some web apps that only support chrome on windows (or chrome and edge). An app from my doctor’s office refused to run on FF for a while. Thankfully it now has a “try running on unsupported browser “ link so I’m not blocked. (Let’s not get into why I’m running windows)

chances are high that it will work perfectly fine on firefox. If you come across that again, try changing your user agent string to chrome.

you can use agent switcher from firefox add-on and change your agent to chrome browser or whatever you like.

Google search engine

“Hey! Install Chrome!”

Even with Edge, google is synonymous with web searching for most people.

Because work approved it and edge. It may suck but it’s not edge.

Edge has its annoying quirks, but it’s a world better than anything IE and it’s mostly OK. I wouldn’t use it on anything that’s mine, but for work where it’s set as default browser it does the job (until I have to check something on Firefox).

Bing is still utter shite though. Bing for enterprise has that AI result crap taking a full screen and a half before the real search results start, and if you misclick anywhere it’ll get right back to the AI results at the top, most of them being not even close to your query.

I’ve never used Edge — is it really that bad?

is “default” because everyone else uses ._.

My job uses Google for everything - their office suite and Classroom. I’ve got Chrome on my computer just for work.

Those work on Firefox.

Comes on me phone. Comes on me chromebook. Simple as

Firefox is a real good choice.

Here’s how to turn that off:

Uninstall Google Chrome
Install Firefox, Ungoogled Chromium, or, heck, Vivaldi
Stop trusting Google

There we go, problem solved.

Remember when websites were tracking us across websites like the Facebook pixel.

Now Google just like we ain’t need that.

here’s how to turn that off

Install firefox

here’s how to turn that off

… use Firefox? How are we still talking about chrome here?

Edit: yes I know many still use Chrome. That’s exactly the problem. Google does shady shit, people shrug it off because insert whatever reason. Google likes that and plans the next shady shit. Rinse, repeat.

Many still use chrome

The popular choice isn’t always the best one.

There are some people who may be forced to use Chrome, like for work or something. 8ts still useful information even if you believe people should not use Chrome willingly.

It’s one of the major things people here on Lemmy like to talk about, I mean take a look at this comment section. Nothing but “use Firefox”, “Google bad”. While somewhat true, it’s incredibly lame and monotonous.

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