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   dragonmantank :verified: (dragonmantank@phpc.social)'s status on Friday, 25-Aug-2023 06:31:06 JST dragonmantank :verified:

   Updated Chrome today, and was immediately given a prompt about how my browsing preferences would be directly used to feed me ads.

   Chrome auto-enabled a feature that sends sites info to send me personalized ads based on browsing history, the ability for sites to determine what I like and update the ads as I browse, and the ability for sites to measure ad effectiveness.

   These are built-in features of the browser now.

   STOP USING CHROME

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     Brendan Jones (brendanjones@fosstodon.org)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Aug-2023 20:53:42 JST Brendan Jones

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     • Kevan
     • Pratik Patel
     • Alexander Hamizdat for Harris

     @alexhammy @kev @dragonmantank @ppatel Yes. Don’t use Brave. Don’t use Chromium at all, while it’s Google’s. Use Firefox!

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     Alexander Hamizdat for Harris (alexhammy@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Aug-2023 20:53:43 JST Alexander Hamizdat for Harris

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     • Kevan
     • Pratik Patel

     @kev @dragonmantank @ppatel isn't that the crypto scam browser that the anti-gay Mozilla guy made?

     novatorine 🏴🏳️‍⚧️ repeated this.
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     Kevan (kev@dragonscave.space)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Aug-2023 20:53:44 JST Kevan

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     • Pratik Patel

     @dragonmantank @ppatel Use Brave, same engine as Chrome apparently.

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     dragonmantank :verified: (dragonmantank@phpc.social)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Aug-2023 20:53:45 JST dragonmantank :verified:

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     • Kevan
     • Pratik Patel

     @kev @ppatel Firefox is my daily driver, but I still have to test things in Chrome. Google has been doing all sorts of stuff for a while, they are just getting more brazen about it.

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     Kevan (kev@dragonscave.space)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Aug-2023 20:53:46 JST Kevan

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     • Pratik Patel

     @dragonmantank @ppatel I uninstalled that a couple of weeks ago and now use Firefox. Remember that big news about Google trying to DRM the web?