#Chrome Data

[blaksheepcreative]

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[astreakoflavender]

started tng. hey so i'm obsessed with him!

[catwire]

friendly reminder chrome fucking sucks as a browser and you should switch to firefox regardless even if you don't care if google collects your data

[monetizeme]

I remember seeing a post going around about how creepy Chrome is & that Firefox was a safer alternative. Not anymore.

[melyzard]

Time for a new edition of my ongoing vendetta against Google fuckery!

Hey friends, did you know that Google is now using Google docs to train it's AI, whether you like it or not? (link goes to: zdnet.com, July 5, 2023). Oh and on Monday, Google updated it's privacy policy to say that it can train it's two AI (Bard and Cloud AI) on any data it scrapes from it's users, period. (link goes to: The Verge, 5 July 2023). Here is Digital Trends also mentioning this new policy change (link goes to: Digital Trends, 5 July 2023). There are a lot more, these are just the most succinct articles that might explain what's happening.

FURTHER REASONS GOOGLE AND GOOGLE CHROME SUCK TODAY:

Stop using Google Analytics, warns Sweden’s privacy watchdog, as it issues over $1M in fines (link goes to: TechCrunch, 3 July 2023) [TLDR: google got caught exporting european users' data to the US to be 'processed' by 'US government surveillance,' which is HELLA ILLEGAL. I'm not going into the Five Eyes, Fourteen Eyes, etc agreements, but you should read up on those to understand why the 'US government surveillance' people might ask Google to do this for countries that are not apart of the various Eyes agreements - and before anyone jumps in with "the US sucks!" YES but they are 100% not the only government buying foreign citizens' data, this is just the one the Swedes caught. Today.]

PwC Australia ties Google to tax leak scandal (link goes to: Reuters, 5 July 2023). [TLDR: a Russian accounting firm slipped Google "confidential information about the start date of a new tax law leaked from Australian government tax briefings." Gosh, why would Google want to spy on governments about tax laws? Can't think of any reason they would want to be able to clean house/change policy/update their user agreement to get around new restrictions before those restrictions or fines hit. Can you?

SO - here is a very detailed list of browsers, updated on 28 June, 2023 on slant.com, that are NOT based on Google Chrome (note: any browser that says 'Chromium-based' is just Google wearing a party mask. It means that Google AND that other party has access to all your data). This is an excellent list that shows pros and cons for each browser, including who the creator is and what kinds of policies they have (for example, one con for Pale Moon is that the creator doesn't like and thinks all websites should be hostile to Tor).

[nando161mando]

Chrome/Google is blocking HSTS encrypted content sites like Wikipedia because this encryption blocks their plagiarist data/info crawler.

Google is NOT protecting "your" security.

[pastelprcdigy]

“you’re annoying.”

WHACK

[aliciadessendre]

has anyone's tumblr loading really slow or not loading at all on firefox (desktop)?

[generallemarc]

Do you want to help people in countries with censored internet?

Install the Snowflake browser extension to help people access the uncensored internet by using your computer's signature! I'm 95% sure there's one for Firefox too, and it comes bundled in with Brave-just go into the settings and turn it on! All you have to do is have a working PC with internet access and live in a country with low internet censorship. Brave even has an option to let it do it's thing even when you don't have the browser open, so that you can be doing this literally as long as your computer is on. Would not recommend using it on Opera though, as Opera is Chinese-owned and is thus not something you should ever have on your computer.

[oktobearfest]

im watching a streamer on twitch who is whining about how ublock no longer works on chrome and literally everyone in chat is telling her to install firefox. she is currently giving out a billion excuses as to why she won't install firefox and i'm like.....bruh then stop complaining if you refuse to fix the problem

[bethrnoora]

finally switched over to firefox but none of you are allowed to be smug about it

[ponco-tsu]

Hating a small company for doing something and then going to a larger company that does that same thing but waaay more as well

[commiepinkofag]

profits over people — the corporate hellscape of internet censorship, safety, privacy, data mining…

[goofnuggetkarlaa]

well it seems youtube on firefox is no longer letting me play videos in anything higher than 720p, and some its only allowing me to view in 360p. and while duckduckgo's duck player works fine, if i stream it over discord, no audio can be heard on the stream (╬▔皿▔)╯

guess im stuck having other people be forced to stream the videos for me i guess until some tech genius starts having this problem as well and creates a workaround.

fuck youtube, fuck google, fuck every big tech company (and every non-tech company while we're at it), fuck every greedy capitalistic pig who is purposefully making my life more irritating and inconvenient for me just because they can. now where's that damn guillotine

[kachimera]

welp, now my computer is having issues loading pages so i might run off into the void again

[ellenembee]

Looks like Google Chrome browser just opted us all into targeted ads that collect and share our data (again). You should get a notification about this to be able to turn them off, but in case you missed it, be sure to go into "settings" > "privacy and security" > "ad privacy" and turn off all the options.

Also adding an obligatory plug for Firefox here at the end. I have to use Google for work, but otherwise, I use Firefox or Duck Duck Go browsers. Both are available as mobile apps as well.