eww icky also this article is old
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eww icky also this article is old
by Ron Amadeo - Sep 7, 2023 2:35pm PST
Mozilla is making a great pivot to integrate AI into Firefox. Totally what people want. /s
The Librewolf project is up to date Firefox core with some hardening and the telemetry going back to Mozilla removed - good stuff.
I want it, and I want it in a browser that isn't controlled by Google.
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I was just thinking about it and I had switched to Firefox back when I left Reddit over the whole API thing and joined Lemmy.
If your version of Chromium has the ability to disable 3rd party cookies then it's not affected by this, yet, but eventually they will program an "alternative" way to provide this data to advertisers so definitely start shopping for a new browser I guess.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Unlike the glitzy front-page Google blog post that the redesign got, the big ad platform launch announcement is tucked away on the privacysandbox.com page.
The blog post says the ad platform is hitting "general availability" today, meaning it has rolled out to most Chrome users.
This has been a long time coming, with the APIs rolling out about a month ago and a million incremental steps in the beta and dev builds, but now the deed is finally done.
Users should see a pop-up when they start up Chrome soon, informing them that an "ad privacy" feature has been rolled out to them and enabled.
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.
Instead of re-inventing the tracking wheel, we should imagine a better world without the myriad problems of targeted ads."
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