Google Chrome pushes ahead with targeted ads based on your browser history - eviltoast

Google Chrome pushes ahead with targeted ads based on your browser history::YMMV, based on where you are

  • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    My company uses G Suite extensively, and I exclusively use Firefox. I haven’t found a single thing that doesn’t work in Firefox thus far.

    Some lawyer somewhere will wind up with a fat payday if some important feature of Gmail/Sheets/Docs gets locked to Chrome exclusively, as soon as anyone notices.

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      FF is my daily driver (tho I do have to use other browsers for testing and such). G Suite works great for me in FF as well.

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      1 year ago

      Unrelated to G Suite, Google search on mobile should work perfectly fine on Firefox, but Google has decided anyone not using chrome will get a “mobile” version of the site. There’s an addon that fixes that by just changing the user-agent string.

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        1 year ago

        They work great for me in chromium based browsers like Arc or Brave

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          And those are basically Chrome.

          WebKit, Gecko, and other rendering engines don’t always get full compatibility, even if they’re super standards compliant.

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            1 year ago

            They use the chrome rendering engine but they are not chrome. You get the best of both worlds. Compatibility with your corporate g suite whatever with a security/privacy-first mindset (at least with Brave)