Comment on Google Chrome pushes ahead with targeted ads based on your browser history
vapeloki@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Let me get this straight:
Until know, Google and other advertisers stored cookies on your device and tracked your browsing history on their servers.
Know, everything happens local and this is somewhat worse then the old way to do it?
How?
Hm. I was going to write “because I could have been visiting sites that don’t sell my data to Google or other advertisers. And now those fuckers will have this information.” But then, if I use Google Chrome to visit those sites, then it serves me right.
Firefox for the win.
How people threw Firefox aside for Google Chrome, at a time when good was known for shitty practices, will boggle my fucking mind.
Another answer: Netflix
While the Mozilla foundation had designed browser DRM that worked on Linux, Chrome has the first implementation. And that enabled Linux users to watch Netflix.
Next one: forced fucking cloudflare DNS over HTTPS. I dipped Firefox because of that.
As shitty as google behaved, that was a nono
Could you give me an eli5 on the DNS part?
At the time chrome was slightly faster and more efficient… Chrome actually forced Firefox to modernize its browser to stay competitive.
People keep telling me that, but everytime I tried Chrome my computer would lag and the fan felt like it was getting ready to take off. On multiple conputers
When it first took big bites out of Firefox, it wasn’t slight at all. I have only my hazy human memory on this, but some pals and I ran a test script at the time. Iirc, Chome would routinely load enough to start reading in 2 seconds while Firefox was more like 6 on average with our site list and went over 10 way too often to ignore.
It had been very easy before that to blame the sites for all the crud they were larding in. But it was like Google’s clean, fast search page compared to Yahoo’s “junk you don’t need” frontpage all over again. Chrome won on speed fair and square.
Thus ends this yarn by one internet fogey.
Good point.
I guess that most advertisers cannot track you everywhere, while your history has the full information. Anyway, happy Firefox user here, I am just shocked how the Google monopoly on browsers is playing out, especially since I am forced to use Chrome for some websites.
MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 1 year ago
No. Now Google straight up looks into your browser history instead of trying to guess your interests.
vapeloki@lemmy.world 1 year ago
At least here in Germany it is opt in. As the algorithm runs locally, I don’t see a big issue with this.
I didn’t opt in to this feature to be clear, and ghostery should help for tracking.
But if I wouldn’t have this option, I would be more willing to have my history evaluated locally, instead of having my history evaluated for 90% of the sides on some third party advertisers owned system.