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Google Chrome pushes ahead with targeted ads based on your browser history (www.theregister.com)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Google Chrome pushes ahead with targeted ads based on your browser history::YMMV, based on where you are

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

FF is my daily driver (tho I do have to use other browsers for testing and such). G Suite works great for me in FF as well.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Latest thing I encountered, virtual backgrounds in Google Meet.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

They work great for me in chromium based browsers like Arc or Brave

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

And those are basically Chrome.

WebKit, Gecko, and other rendering engines don’t always get full compatibility, even if they’re super standards compliant.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

They use the chrome rendering engine but they are not chrome. You get the best of both worlds. Compatibility with your corporate g suite whatever with a security/privacy-first mindset (at least with Brave)