Technology

59689 readers

3173 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

Follow the lemmy.world rules.
Only tech related content.
Be excellent to each another!
Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
Politics threads may be removed.
No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

642

Google Chrome now targets ads based on your browser history, here's how to turn that off (www.techspot.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

98 comments fedilink hide all child comments

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...

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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.