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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.

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[โ€“] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] pdxfed@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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. !degoogle@lemmy.ml