Comment on Google Chrome ships a default, hidden extension that allows code on *.google.com access to private APIs, including your current CPU usage

ComeHereOrIHookYou@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Firefox 🔛 🔝

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  • xavier666@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    🦊🦊

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• madis@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Vivaldi and Brave have the option to disable the Hangouts extension in settings, which should disable this.

  As linked in the article, it is indeed used for “Hangouts” (Meet) troubleshooting.

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  • ComeHereOrIHookYou@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This is good news since Vivaldi is my goto chromium browser (when I need to really use it)

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• Katana314@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’ll admit, in several places I used Edge as an effort to have at least some layer of distrust between myself and Google. I’ll have to quit that though.

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  • dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I like your style. I went looking and found “switchbar” which kinda/sorta eases this bouncing between browsers idea:

    …google.com/…/klgpknafjlhnpkppfbihchgfebbdcomd

    It’s not elegant, but it supports the workflow you suggest. I kind of like the idea of using Edge for google.com and Chrome for microsoft.com. I’m not optimizing my experience (it may in fact be very sub-optimal), but I’m also using competition to neutralize potential shenanigans.

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    • Emerald@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I kind of like the idea of using Edge for google.com and Chrome for microsoft.com.

      Dang just use Firefox. It’s so much easier then this

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• solrize@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  jwz.org/…/mozilla-is-an-advertising-company-now/

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  • cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    such a sensationalist article there. mozilla isnt an advertising company, they bought a company that specialises in privacy focused ad campaigns so they can provide an alternative to google for companies.

    which is what they should be doing.

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  • ComeHereOrIHookYou@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Welp, might as well just use w3m 🤣

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