This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Instructions for a better browsing experience can be found at https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browsers/
This is the way.
Firefox gets like 90% of its revenue from making Google the default search engine.
If you want to keep Firefox independent consider donating:
Here's how to turn that off:
There we go, problem solved.
here's how to turn that off
Install firefox
TL;DR: use Firefox
Best solution: Stop using Chrome.
It's not the fastest nor the most feature rich anymore, not even the simplest.
Chrome is not a web browser anymore. It's a ad browser.
To all the "use Firefox" people, my work website requires Chrome, so I appreciate this OP.
If it blocks you from opening the page if you use firefox, there is a firefox extension(agent switcher) to trick the website into thinking you are using a different OS or browser
If it doesnt work, you can use ungoogled chromium or chromium
Edit: if neither work, you can try to use the user agent switcher extension on chromium
You can use Chromium for that. Also it's not a website then.
nope. thought so too until i had to install chrome in the middle of a meeting.
Also it's not a website then.
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Because what would be the practical difference between this "website" and Android app if Android base was available on others systems?
Both are dependent on specific runtime, both are API based, with special way to do persistant storage (usually not for user to view), both have restrictive permission system, both isolate apps from each other... The only difference is Chrome does not have centralized app store and still has compatibility with regular websites.
“Don’t be evil”.
I don't remember chrome ever looking like that with that button on the top left, did they really use a picture of Firefox with a custom theme for their article about Chrome?
The image was first used on their site in another article in 2020.
Tineye turns up a lot of usages.
The original seems to be from shutterstock, which also has an alternate angle available. The artist describes it as "Google Chrome homepage on computer screen".
In conclusion: idk if that's firefox.
That is Firefox. I remember.
Even THEY don’t want to install Chrome for an article…
It sounds like Google could have done a much better job announcing and explaining how the new system works. This is a definite improvement in privacy over the "cookie" standard in advertising. I don't know if turning this off just keeps you locked-in to using cookies, but it doesn't turn off identification like a lot of you seem to imply.
To those of you out there not using an adblocker: this new system eliminates the use of advertiser-based cookies. All your identification is based on a minimal number of categories based on your browsing history. It doesn't send your actual history to an advertiser, just some (5, I think?) topics that have held your interest within the last few weeks. I'm sure there's a list of these keywords sent to the ad-server so it can decide what to send. I don't really care what they are, because I'm in the next group.
To those of you out there using Firefox and/or an adblocker: carry on, nothing to see here. Keep promoting your favorite non-Chrome based browser and adblocker.
You guys are using chrome?
Wtf is that thumbnail? Looks like pre Australis firefox ui on the get chrome page lmao
Does this only affect Chrome or other Chromium-based browsers (i.e. Edge) as well?
don't think so, doesn't look like a part of the engine
Weren't they already doing that?
Chrome didn't have the option to delete your browsing history every time you shut your browser, presumably for that exact reason.
Honestly, yes you guys should move to Firefox. I pretty much stayed on Chrome until chromium Edge was a thing. I tried that and ended up using that until they bloated it to hell and back, so I am back to using Firefox. Honestly just use anything but Chrome.
I'll just continue to use Ungoogled Chromium and Librewolf
Vivaldi is going to block this. It is a thing being built into the engine and they are going to be blocking it in their browser.
I know people say Vivaldi is slow but they've done some refactoring recently. Gave it a whirl and it's as fast as Edge now on my old crappy laptop.
How do I turn it off if I use Firefox already?
Chekhov's Browser
