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Google Chrome’s ad-blocking plan could be a privacy disaster | TechRadar (www.techradar.com)
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Chrome’s ad-blocking plan could be a privacy disaster – and a reason to switch to Firefox....

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[–] [email protected] 80 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Name a more iconic duo then Google and privacy disasters

[–] [email protected] 73 points 9 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Purged by creator

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago

google and dead projects

[–] [email protected] -2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

YouTube and supporting content creators.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

The YouTuber would be better of if you donated 1 cent instead of watching an ad.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 9 months ago (1 children)

This one and the Tux one have been getting a lot of use lately thanks to Chrome and Win11.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

I have embraced firefox as my primary browser now. I have a few remaining cookies on chrome that I have to re-establish in FF, and then I can't even imagine any reason I'd even need to use chrome again other than some obscure internal web app that I can spin up on a throwaway virtual machine.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 9 months ago (2 children)

TL;DR... Google is limiting how many rules that extensions can have. Ad blockers need ~300k to run effectively, Google will limit them to 30k in Chrome citing "privacy and a light weight user experience" as the reason. This change will effectively make ad blockers in chrome all but useless. The solution will likely mean switching to more privacy focused browsers, such as Firefox.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 9 months ago

Brb, installing ad blocker part 1 through 10

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

So you just need to to some regex magic to reduce the amount of rules?

[–] [email protected] 32 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Firofox pls chomsky-yes-honey

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Google... could be a privacy disaster

astronaut-2 astronaut-1

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Google [...] a privacy disaster

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Google [...] a privacy disaster

Googles "piracy disaster"

Gets pinged for targeted marketing and also flagged for IP criminal law prosecution capitalist-laugh

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

“Could” as if there’s a possibility it will respect your privacy lmfao

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (1 children)

With that bs I have been changing everything away from Google. It takes a little work but I am looking the results so far.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It made me install grapheneOS and I actually like my phone again.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Same here. I daresay my phone is now finally again as nice as in the early days of smart phones.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago

Stop using Chrome then.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago

Google *’s * plan could be a privacy disaster.

I thought it might read better not being so unnecessarily specific.