#ditchchrome — Public Fediverse posts
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🕸️ Your browser isn’t a window—it’s a wiretap.
Two apps. One master.
🔍 Google Chrome
📱 Google Search AppDifferent names. Same goal: data extraction.
They don’t just see your clicks.
They predict your intent.
Fingerprint your device.
Profile your behavior.
Report it all—constantly.📡 Surveillance starts with your browser.
Not everything that loads a page is your friend.
🛡 Question the defaults.
Delete what watches back.#DitchChrome #GoogleSurveillance
#DigitalSovereignty #PrivacyTools -
https://www.howtogeek.com/firefox-is-getting-vertical-tabs-tab-grouping/
This is the best news of the year!!! Cannot contain my excitement. Please implement these features well 🙏
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I occasionally read stories that come to me via Google News feed, built into the Android home screen. Inevitably, a lot of these news sites will block me from viewing content because of my #pihole network ad blocking.
But when I open the same page in Firefox mobile, I don't get the same message.
Embedded Chrome must do something that enables this detection, and Firefox doesn't. And that makes me feel warm and fuzzy.
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@dangillmor
Additionally, there were plenty of reasons already to ditch #Chrome, although I'm not sure how the FLoC bit developed.
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/google-chrome-browser-data -
Et ce week-end j’ai fait le switch sur mon ordi perso. J’utilise Safari en navigateur principal mais j’utilisais Chrome comme navigateur secondaire, maintenant c’est Firefox ! #DitchChrome
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Google killing the web, one “proposal” at a time https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/07/googles-web-integrity-api-sounds-like-drm-for-the-web/ 💩
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@renniezen in their own explainer write up the "challenges and threats" and "open questions" section they do a pretty good of pointing out how bad an idea this is.
As users and specifically as a tech and open minded person using Chrome based browsers is just acting against our own interests.