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Google Chrome’s ad-blocking plan could be a privacy disaster | TechRadar

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Chrome’s ad-blocking plan could be a privacy disaster – and a reason to switch to Firefox

Chrome’s ad-blocking plan could be a privacy disaster – and a reason to switch to Firefox....

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Name a more iconic duo then Google and privacy disasters
This one and the Tux one have been getting a lot of use lately thanks to Chrome and Win11.
- 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.
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.
- Brb, installing ad blocker part 1 through 10
- So you just need to to some regex magic to reduce the amount of rules?
- I interpret it as both, Firefox and Franz Ferdinand
Firofox pls
“Could” as if there’s a possibility it will respect your privacy lmfao
Google... could be a privacy disaster
- Google [...] a privacy disaster
  
  Google [...] a privacy disaster
  Googles "piracy disaster"
  Gets pinged for targeted marketing and also flagged for IP criminal law prosecution
With that bs I have been changing everything away from Google. It takes a little work but I am looking the results so far.
- It made me install grapheneOS and I actually like my phone again.
  
  Same here. I daresay my phone is now finally again as nice as in the early days of smart phones.
Stop using Chrome then.
Google *’s * plan could be a privacy disaster.
I thought it might read better not being so unnecessarily specific.
Blah blah blah blah privacy circle jerk click bait.
- It's valuable to advertisers and subsidizes cost.
- So you won't have a problem telling me your address so I can make photos of you shitting and post them on the internet. Seen as privacy is just a circle jerk.
  
  Care to incorporate, offer me something of value, write up a terms of service, contract, and get a 3rd party ISO 27001 series audit? Then we can chat.
  Until then you personally aren't really in a position to get that information.
  Imagine wanting to lazily skip those steps and ask for information. Topkek!

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