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

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[-] HootinNHollerin@sh.itjust.works 52 points 1 year ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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[-] dismalnow@kbin.social 13 points 1 year 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@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year 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@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year 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@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

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

[-] rastilin@kbin.social 11 points 1 year 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.

[-] Monologue@lemmy.zip 26 points 1 year ago

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

[-] joelthelion@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

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

[-] n3cr0@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

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

[-] startlefrenzy@lemmy.world 59 points 1 year ago

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

[-] watson387@sopuli.xyz 19 points 1 year ago

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

[-] dismalnow@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyi 4 points 1 year 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.

[-] kiwifoxtrot@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year 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@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year 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@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Voyajer@kbin.social 1 points 1 year 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@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

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

[-] DrDeadCrash@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

I've been using ad-nauseam on Firefox: https://adnauseam.io/

[-] 6mementomori@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

adnauseam!

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