[S]ites can ask Chrome directly what kinds of topics you’re interested in – topics automatically selected by Chrome from your browsing history – so that ads personalized to your activities can be served… Apple and Mozilla have rejected at least the Topics API for interest-based ads on privacy grounds.
In other words, it’s not helping privacy. Or in better other words:
Google’s definition of privacy is not the dictionary definition most might understand. Rather it’s the ad industry and legal definition where privacy is not so much a binary state – public or private – but a notionally consent-based trade of information to gain access to ad-supported content.
If you have Firefox, I would strongly recommend containers. To websites, they are like separate profiles for the same browser, but to you they visually occupy the same space and thus the same history, extensions*, etc. They also eat way less RAM because they’re not running a separate browser.
* which, to be fair, might be used for fingerprinting too, so YMMV
I know people are passionate about their love / hated of Brave, but it along with LibreWolf (and Firefox) all offer strong fingerprinting protection out of the box. With Firefox, just make sure you add uBlock Origin.
Yeah they analyze your browser history and then generate labels of things you’re presumably interested in and then share it with any website that asks. Privacy friendly alright.
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The much better way is called “topics” btw:
In other words, it’s not helping privacy. Or in better other words:
I feel fuckin dirty even reading that last paragraph. It’s so detached from any sane reality.
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Browser fingerprinting is nasty and easy. There are ways to push back but it’s still awful.
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If you have Firefox, I would strongly recommend containers. To websites, they are like separate profiles for the same browser, but to you they visually occupy the same space and thus the same history, extensions*, etc. They also eat way less RAM because they’re not running a separate browser.
* which, to be fair, might be used for fingerprinting too, so YMMV
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I know people are passionate about their love / hated of Brave, but it along with LibreWolf (and Firefox) all offer strong fingerprinting protection out of the box. With Firefox, just make sure you add uBlock Origin.
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If you wanted a slimmer Firefox, a less confusing Arkenfox, or something like Tor but for everyday use, it might be perfect.
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Wait Firefox sends fingerprint info?
Why is there not an open source browser that doesn’t send this shit?
Yeah they analyze your browser history and then generate labels of things you’re presumably interested in and then share it with any website that asks. Privacy friendly alright.