It does not matter what any of you think and say to this company.

What you have to do now is organize.

The undisclosed X-Client-Data telemetry, the adblocker-busting Manifest V3 and the new APIs that are used almost exclusively for ad network fingerprinting (AudioContext and others).

Chrome is the DoubleClick browser and now that market share is so strong the facade can lift.

https://www.ghacks.net/2020/10/15/microsoft-begins-manifest-...

It's Google that are breaking the internet for people, and getting away with it because of their market share. I've not used Chrome for ages and use Edge only where things don't work (like Google Photos).

It's a catch-22. Chrome's marketshare and the power that gives Google is just further entrenching chrome's hold on the market.

The battle for privacy is lost on so many fronts; I do not believe it can be won, any longer. Even the language used by proponents for privacy shows this. What Google and others represent is not the opposite of privacy, that would be transparency. I've never heard Google's (nor Facebook's) practices designated as transparency friendly. Perhaps there is a good word for it, but as an ESL person, I've at least never heard of it.

As programmers we should know all about the benefit that proper naming provides. And things should be called by their proper name.

I am not for privacy, I have nothing to hide. Rather, I am against the exploitation of data I generate. So this comment can be taken as either a call to arms and naming the enemy, or as a statement of my ignorance of the queen's own english :p

I was mostly joking, since I can't imagine anyone buying a Google Chromebook in an attempt to avoid Google. But, for the sake of argument, I do think it's genuinely straightforward.

The internal details are slightly complicated, but from a user's perspective, all you have to do is press one button from inside settings, open a terminal, and type "sudo apt install firefox".

That's not as easy as downloading a setup.exe file, but I think it's pretty straightforward. ChromeOS will even associate URLs with Firefox, if you choose. Then, even if you open Chrome, it will redirect all links back into Firefox.

Just a small technical tangent of my own. :D

do you really think your "data" is valuable? or was this just an idea put in your head by journalists?

ponder that for a moment

provability

interoperability

reimplementability

Snippet from rules.json:

    {
      "id": 1,
      "priority": 1,
      "action": { "type": "block" },
      "condition": {"urlFilter": "google.com", "resourceTypes": ["main_frame"] }
    },
    {
      "id": 11,
      "priority": 1,
      "action": {
        "type": "modifyHeaders",
        "responseHeaders": [
          { "header": "h1", "operation": "set", "value": "v4" },
          { "header": "h2", "operation": "append", "value": "v5" },
          { "header": "h3", "operation": "append", "value": "v6" }
        ]
      },
      "condition": { "urlFilter": "headers.com/12345", "resourceTypes": ["main_frame"] }
    },

tldr: CSP modification was strictly forbidden. Digging in further it seems this changed somewhere in 2020 and appears to be working now https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=111648...