Jos_B, 8 months ago

@mattsheffield “That's actually what started this whole process: Apple dealt a giant blow to Google's core revenue stream when it blocked third-party cookies in Safari in 2020. While it was a win for privacy, Google's not following suit until it can secure its advertising business. “

aral, 8 months ago

@mattsheffield Google has been a spyware company for a long time now…

https://ar.al/notes/spyware-2.0/

#spyware #google #chrome #spyware2point0

thomzane, 8 months ago

@mattsheffield Looks under the hood of Vivaldi Looks like we got another Chrome browser here...

mattsheffield, 8 months ago

@thomzane The code is open source for now so this stuff can be taken out

Myles124, 8 months ago

@mattsheffield @thomzane Vivaldi is closed source.

mattsheffield, 8 months ago

@Myles124 @thomzane Some of it is, yes. That's why I mentioned Firefox if you want exclusively open source.

Myles124, 8 months ago

@mattsheffield @thomzane It's as open source as Chrome is. So proprietary.

ethan_heilman, 8 months ago

@mattsheffield what about brave?

gregalotl, 8 months ago

@mattsheffield @mozilla
Firefox + uBlock Origin + Privacy Badger + NoScript + AdBlock + DuckDuckGo = better privacy

On Android, disable Play Services (suppress warnings on its absence, for each app) and use Fdroid & APK pure as app stores & use

ferralcat, 8 months ago

@mattsheffield wait. Wasn't it always spyware? It's literal only purpose from the day it was released was to upload your browser history to Google so they could serve you ads...

mattsheffield, 8 months ago

@ferralcat They've claimed not to do that, but I've never trusted it as a browser.

floweringmind, 8 months ago

@mattsheffield https://vivaldi.com/blog/news/alert-no-google-topics-in-vivaldi/

akashgoswami, 8 months ago

@mattsheffield this wouldn't apply to other browsers built off chromium like Arc right?

mattsheffield, 8 months ago

@akashgoswami Depends on the browser, but at this point they can remove that stuff

akashgoswami, 8 months ago

@mattsheffield thought so. Yeah I’m just gonna use Arc alongside Firefox now

xs4me2, 8 months ago

@mattsheffield

Indeed, always go for open source when possible!

ceeelless_33, 8 months ago

@mattsheffield That would be nice if the sites I use worked on Firefox... hence why I had to move to Chrome in the first place

mattsheffield, 8 months ago

@ceeelless_33 Use Vivaldi then. It's based on Chromium, the Chrome backend

ceeelless_33, 8 months ago

@mattsheffield I will stick with what I have got for now

pkal, 8 months ago

@mattsheffield @ceeelless_33 Isn't Vivaldi non free? I hope that projects like Ungoogled Chromium (https://ungoogled-software.github.io/) will be able to remove the problematic aspects in these new developments, for those with hard dependencies on Blink.

sw00sh, 8 months ago

@mattsheffield Googles tried to get away in 2008 with unique identifier in every Chrome install. So it was the plan all along.