Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome::Chrome now directly tracks users, generates a “topic” list it shares with advertisers.
Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome::Chrome now directly tracks users, generates a “topic” list it shares with advertisers.
uBlock Origin and Privacy Badger should be the first addons you install.
Also consider the Multi-Account Containers addon. It loads certain domains in their own tabs and isolates them from others.
This is just the basics, there’s a deep rabbit hole for privacy of you’re interested and lots of interesting extensions for maximum control (cookie auto-deleters, Matrix, JavaScript disablers, anti-fingerprinting, scrubbers etc.) Firefox itself comes with a lot of privacy-related stuff built-in nowadays.
Jumped a month ago or so after reading about their “product enhancements” and not being able to install an extension to download a YouTube clip I needed for a work project. Water is excellent, also removing them out of my search as much as possible.
Recommend Degoogle Yourself community for weeding them out wherever you’re comfortable. I still have them for photos and maps is better than anything comparable but have given them that much less data to sell. [email protected]