2y ago

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

adguard.com /en/blog/google-chrome-topics-cookies.html

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- Which is why it boggles my mind that every company I have worked for uses it as the stock alternative to Edge over Firefox.
  
  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.
- 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.
they use FLoC now to track their users so they can afford to drop the cookies
- Exactly, they're trying to kill the competition but they're obviously not going to damage their business.
Breaking loose the discussion: Whats the better add-on: adguard or ublock origin?
- The general consensus is ublock origin. It's best on Firefox and I've had no issues with it
  
  A lot of the internet is unusable without ublock origin IMO.
  
  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.
- 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.
  
  That's not going to be very useful for very long. Advertisers will very quickly wise up and find a way to detect this.
  
  Adnas, even though it's based on ublock, I've noticed it doesn't catch an ad occasionally even when set up the same.
- uBlock. Adguard is probably fine for what it is but uBlock Origins is far and away the gold standard.
- I've been using ad-nauseam on Firefox: https://adnauseam.io/
- adnauseam!

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