Google Chrome pushes browser history-based ad targeting
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Google Chrome pushes ahead with targeted ads based on your browser history::YMMV, based on where you are

    • kratoz29@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      I switched a few weeks ago, I have not been able to test it on a PC, but the Android app definitely feels slower than Chrome, Cromite and Vivaldi.

      • baru@lemmy.worldEnglish
        10·
        1 year ago

        Enable Ublock origin. It’ll be faster when it doesn’t need to load ads.

        • kratoz29@lemm.eeEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          It is enabled, I think the performance hit would come from Dark Reader… but it is a must have extension for me (the reason I dropped Chrome actually, since they ditched the ability to darken websites in recent chrome versions).

    • JonsJava@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Switched? I’ve been using it since pre-1.0

      I have chrome, but that’s because my company’s product uses it for our clients plugin. Only use it for work stuff.

    • weew@lemmy.caEnglish
      7·
      1 year ago

      have they not already been doing this ever since they created Chrome?

      • dalekcaan@lemm.eeEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        Yeah it honestly surprises me they haven’t been doing this already. I mean at least on a smaller scale this has been Google’s business model for a while now.

  • Kittybeer@lemm.eeEnglish
    142·
    1 year ago

    I had to read the whole article to get to this info: Depending on what Chrome version you’re using, and whether you’ve been selected to start using Topics API, you can switch this functionality off and on by visiting chrome://settings/adPrivacy and/or chrome://settings/privacySandbox – cut’n’paste these URLs into your address bar to jump straight to the controls.

      • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.worldEnglish
        66·
        1 year ago

        Easier said than done sometimes. Google is already doing what Microsoft used to do. They’re locking G suite features to Chrome, and if your company uses G suite, you made find yourselves in Chrome just so a damn thing works.

        • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.worldEnglish
          61·
          1 year ago

          My company uses G Suite extensively, and I exclusively use Firefox. I haven’t found a single thing that doesn’t work in Firefox thus far.

          Some lawyer somewhere will wind up with a fat payday if some important feature of Gmail/Sheets/Docs gets locked to Chrome exclusively, as soon as anyone notices.

          • unalivejoy@lemm.eeEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            Unrelated to G Suite, Google search on mobile should work perfectly fine on Firefox, but Google has decided anyone not using chrome will get a “mobile” version of the site. There’s an addon that fixes that by just changing the user-agent string.

        • Klystron@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          Especially with some webapps too. My nas’s only allows you to upload folders through chrome, completely unsupported on Firefox. They do however another service on a different site that does support folder upload on Firefox for some reason though. I don’t get the disconnect.

        • 👍Maximum Derek👍@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          I encounter a site that will only work in Chrome based browsers (or at least won’t work in Firefox) about once a month. I’ve yet to encounter one that will only work in Chrome proper.

    • Blizzard@lemmy.zipEnglish
      16·
      1 year ago

      You can switch it now but obviously it’s just a matter of time til you won’t be allowed to.