Google enables advertisers a look into your browsing history…

    • @treefrog@lemm.ee
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      222 years ago

      Brave is a marketing browser masquerading as a privacy browser.

      Just use Firefox. Mozilla is a nonprofit and Firefox is open source. It’s really not hard to switch.

      • Engywook
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        Firefox is made by Mozilla Corp., which is for profit. Brave is fully FOSS as well. And Mozilla as a whole is a useless, unless we’re talking about their ability to take Google’s money (money which comes from Google ad businnes, in the end), raising the CEO paycheck and firing devs and making FF shittier with each forced update.

        • @treefrog@lemm.ee
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          12 years ago

          I just checked. Mozilla has both a non-profit and a for profit division.

          Both support Firefox.

    • Engywook
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      32 years ago

      Very… Brave of you saying that here. For me it’s the best browser out there as well, right now. Be prepared for a cascade of downvotes from Mozilla’s shills.

  • Takina's Old Pair™
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    32 years ago

    On my next phone, Google Chrome will be permanently disabled. Will install Firefox first thing.

    • spez
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      22 years ago

      You can use this to permanently delete chrome. I have done the same since I don’t trust the disabled option.

    • @learningduck@programming.dev
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      22 years ago

      FF is one of a few browsers on Monroe l mobile that support plugins (the list is too small, but you can I install plugins outside of there curated list). So, that’s even better.

    • @Serinus@lemmy.world
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      It’s not hard to get around PiHole. If enough adopt it, they’ll just use technical workarounds to make Pihole pretty useless.

      • @JuxtaposedJaguar@lemmy.ml
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        Pi-hole works by giving clients non-routable addresses in response to DNS queries of known ad-serving domains. If the client (web browser, phone, smart device, etc) doesn’t let you set its DNS server (as many no longer do) and doesn’t obey DHCP, then you can’t feed them those addresses. You could block outbound DNS traffic from all clients except your Pi-hole, but in response some clients will just refuse to work entirely. And if they require DNSSEC (or DoT/DoH with a pinned certificate), there’s nothing you can do.

        • biscuit
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          32 years ago

          That’s ok.

          I use revanced for YouTube on my Android phone.

          I use Smarttube Next for YouTube on my Android TV.

          It works wonderfully.

        • kadotux
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          82 years ago

          Yup because pi-hole is a domain-based blocker and youtube serves ads from their own domain

    • SokathHisEyesOpen
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      72 years ago

      It’s a good idea to stop storing your passwords in your browser and use a password manager instead.

    • @abhibeckert@lemmy.world
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      102 years ago

      Switch to a dedicated password manager - Bitwarden for example.

      Then you can try any browser. Firefox definitely wouldn’t be my choice but it is better than Chrome.

    • Marxism-Fennekinism
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      Any organization that feels the need to outright claim without being asked that they’re not evil are 100% projecting and are evil.

      • Phoenixz
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        172 years ago

        I think they honestly weren’t, back in those days, or at least trying not to be.

        Now google is a fully fledged advertising and marketing company

        I already dumped google search in favor of DuckDuckGo years ago which gives objectively better results. Google search has been overrun with SEO spam since years ago

        I’m getting rid of chrome, then of google drive, then what more… Google maps is a big one to drop too but it’s so nice.

        It sucks that a company builds good software and then just abuses the crap out of it but this is why we have open source!

        Lastly I’ll need to drop google from my Android phone, somehow.

        • asudox
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          -12 years ago

          So you’re telling me that Bing provides better search results than Google?

          • Phoenixz
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            32 years ago

            Ik using DuckDuckGo. I do believe they’re using some bing tech, but the results are definitely better than google for me. Whenever I go back to try it again, google gives me only spammy SEO optimized results that are useless

            • asudox
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              22 years ago

              I no longer would trust Startpage much as I used to. When System1 got into it, I backed off.

        • Marxism-Fennekinism
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          62 years ago

          “Fuck it everyone already knows we’re evil no point in pretending now.” – Google, probably

      • @bobman@unilem.org
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        22 years ago

        Nah. In the early days it made sense because Google was doing some really cool things.

  • Franzia
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    232 years ago

    Damn advertisers are finally gonna realize how fucking lonely I am is keeping me from being a better consumer and has me resenting capitalism and they’ll work to change my sad life, right? Privatize the profits, socialize the losses, isolate the losers. Got it.

  • @Texas_Hangover@lemm.ee
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    312 years ago

    Got this today, I have to use chrome for a couple things every month, and they conveniently turned on all their tracking and ads and bullshit. Had to turn all that crap off again. Not that they’d glean any useful information from my paltry chrome usage, but it still pisses me off.