Technology

From my experience, it's almost always "Chrome doesn't have feature x". It's the most feature poor browser currently in wide use. The only advantage that comes to mind is web dev tools, which: a) 99% of people don't care about, because they aren't web devs. b) Chromium also has, and it's like the considerably less infuriating twin.

Floorp is a nice one to use and deserves a mention.

Every once in a while I will try something like degoogled chromium because hey it’s probably a bit faster or works in a few more places.

But then nope, right back to librewolf. It works on everything I need it to work on, and I use the browser all day. I use Linux at work so all the Microsoft suite like outlook, teams, and onenote are webpages.

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Google is really damned if they do, damned if they don't here. Third party cookies are very privacy invasive, but replacing it with Chrome watching everything you do and acting as an ad broker is also not great. As long as Google is providing targeted advertising (which you could opt out of in privacy sandbox) then there's not a really great solution.

I do think they dragged this along enough that all sites now operate properly with third party cookies disabled, so that's a benefit at least.

it's rarely about clicks when it comes to banner ads, it's about impressions (the ad was visible in a user's browser). as with most advertising, it's about keeping the user aware of a brand name or product.

while clicking on them does lead to a destination page of some kind, and it may be valuable to the advertiser for you to end up there (back on a product page for some thing you previously looked at but didn't buy for example) the ad networks and publishers hosting the ads on their pages are mainly getting paid by impressions.

My wife loves the shopping ads and always complains when the Pi-Hole blocks them.

Thankfully (weird to say), the current political climate has her worried about being tracked online and she's finally opening up to the idea of proper privacy.

I used to work for a company that made most of its money from shitty ad pages you get if you type a url wrong and you’d be shocked to see their monthly Google revenue. It’s in the millions.

adnauseam but seriously I did seen people using chrome, not blocking ads and clicking the first result even when it is labelled as ad. The worst is that they keep interacting with the website in a hope they find what they looking for.

The same type of people who fall for scams. And older people, although that's redundant.

you can use ironfox too.

Perhaps more to do with this. Google no longer has legal problems in the US under Trump.

possible. theirs might just become 'third party' cookies.

but i think they're confident that they will not have to give up anything tangible in the current proceedings. toss a little more money into the diaper pail, case is mysteriously dropped or government remedy neutered to a "try not to do that again".

How dare you think Google would listen to its users and not the advertisers. Fr though I'm not sure, manifest v3 does use a sandboxing feature but it's unclear at first glance if they are directly related

Google has been kicking the can on ending third party cookie support for years. Chrome has such a large market share that whatever they decide to do has a huge impact on the ability to monetize content with ads.

There’s no clear direct replacement for identifying users for ad targeting outside of 3pty cookies. Lots of competing ‘privacy preserving frameworks’ but they all need buy in from many players at scale to be effective.