How to disable Chrome’s new targeted ad tracking
(www.theverge.com)
from 1984@lemmy.today to technology@lemmy.ml on 06 Sep 2023 09:32
https://lemmy.today/post/886140
from 1984@lemmy.today to technology@lemmy.ml on 06 Sep 2023 09:32
https://lemmy.today/post/886140
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There’s a very easy way: Don’t use an ad-tech browser …
But Google told me its the best browser!
it is! (for googles bottom line)
Reminder: Chrome is made by a company that got rich working as middleman for advertisements. Don’t trust any claim that it’s trying to keep your privacy or what have you, it does not. Anyone who cares about privacy should be avoiding Chrome as much as reasonable/possible. Firefox is easy to install.
That said, this tutorial is useful if for some reason you’re “stuck” with Chrome, due to something broken that doesn’t work in other browsers.
Comments from The Verge:
You might not care about your browsing habits, but plenty people do, they want to minimise the amount of their personal information leaking to businesses. It’s a mistake to associate incognito mode with any meaningful amount of privacy.
Most people will use it, as it’s by default on, regardless of their best interests, so the tutorial still helps those who go out of their way to avoid it. Also, I think that we shouldn’t assume that the Topics API will not be as privacy-wrecking as the “old” ways to vulture on your data.
Disable it by uninstalling.
At this point just install firefox…
Switching to Firefox worked great.
Fastest way: stop using chrome. It exists to spy on you and collect data. Its a lost cause.
I like how I told a few users to stop using chrome for privacy reasons and specifically for this reason, yet they just said “many other people also use chrome, why would google want my data amongst others?”. Yet they whine about other minor privacy stuff.
I think this is the generation that doesn’t care about anything except maybe the environment and gender roles…