So yes, Google Chrome just rolled out a new way to track you and serve ads How to fix it? Switch to Firefox. Not to Edge. Alternatively, if you need Chome for work. Visit chrome://settings/adPrivacy and turn off each setting. Of course get Adbloker too ;)
@nixCraft there's Chromium derivatives that aren't so messed up, like Vivaldi, Brave or the classic ungoogled Chromium.
@Amikke @nixCraft Brave is pretty messed up though https://www.spacebar.news/p/stop-using-brave-browser
@travis @nixCraft it's always fun to see these articles reach conspiracy nut levels of grasping at straws. Hey, stop using this browser because one of its investors is a fund operated by a guy who independently helped fund a wrestler's lawsuit against a company that outed him as gay.
This is no different than right-wing nuts connecting a company through 4 levels of indirection to Jews and declaring it a jewish conspiracy. This level of guilty-by-association bullshit needs to stop, on all sides.
@Amikke @travis @nixCraft I think it's still interesting that these articles exist. As a Brave user myself, I wasn't aware of all these "take with a pinch of salt" stories, but there are all the sources quoted.
Everyone has their own opinion. But there will always be something negative in every company, there will always be something to say... and so I agree that we need to stop saying "Stop using....." because we're never going to get away with moving platforms & tools for X or Y reasons.