Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome - eviltoast

If you can, use Firefox.

  • Victor@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Mozilla Phoenix user here. Good old times. Then Firebird came along. Then Firefox… What an odd name change that was, IMO. Firefox. Huh.

    Then Chrome came and I jumped on that ship for years until the new revamped Firefox came in 2018, and as it looks nowadays, I won’t ever leave Firefox until it dies of death.

    Chrome has a pretty sleek design these days, but my conscience tells me I can’t use it.

    I use Chromium for web development (testing purposes only), but I’m not sure if Chromium is any better. At least I’m not signed in to it.

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      9 months ago

      They ditched Phoenix because the bios manufacturer had that copy right. There’s a whole story behind it.

      Firefox in China is also known as a red panda

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        9 months ago

        Ah, so that’s the reason. I never bothered to find out. Thanks! Only 20 years later or so 😅

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          9 months ago

          Lol I only found out about a month ago. So I’m in the same boat.