Chrome now directly tracks users, generates a "topic" list it shares with advertisers.
      • rambaroo@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 years ago

        I use it at work because of it has the best dev tools. Although edge is pretty much the same so I could use that, but not much of an ethical upgrade.

        • HughJanus@lemmy.mlEnglish
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          3 years ago

          I use it at work because of it has the best dev tools.

          Every Chromium fork has those same tools.

          • rambaroo@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            3 years ago

            I know that. I acknowledged that in the next sentence when I talked about edge.

            But it still wouldn’t stop me from using chrome because I need to test with it. It’s what most of our end users use. I’m not about to install Vivaldi or something when we don’t even support it, and none of our users use it.

    • DarienGS@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 years ago

      Serious question: let’s say I continue using Chrome and Privacy Sandbox becomes the norm. How does my internet experience get worse?

        • DarienGS@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          3 years ago

          I know what the Topics API does. I’m asking for a concrete example of exactly how it’s going to make my internet experience worse. (That Register article doesn’t provide one.)

            • DarienGS@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              3 years ago

              I’d love to debate this with you properly but I’ve got COVID right now and don’t have the energy to put together a decent response, sorry. Basically I just don’t see how the specific features in the new Chrome build let advertisers do anything they can’t already do. I don’t see how they contribute to ads getting worse, or where “nickel and diming” comes into it.