Re:Google delays phasing out ad cookies on Chrome until 2024
by muizelaar on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @07:56PM
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What phoning home can't you disable in about:config?
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Re:Google delays phasing out ad cookies on Chrome until 2024
by ocdtrekkie on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @08:10PM
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I suspect the core issue isn't that you can't disable new privacy violations in Firefox, but that they're regularly added and default to being enabled, such that keeping them disabled is a regular full-time job. It'd be ideal if there was a single "don't phone home" switch that Firefox obeyed for all new telemetry features, but they don't.
That being said, being upset Mozilla has a trash telemetry policy isn't a good excuse to use Chrome, a willfully compromised browser which has refused to implement industry-standard protections.
Re:Google delays phasing out ad cookies on Chrome until 2024
by freediver on Thursday July 28, 2022 @12:19AM
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It is problematic that phoning home is opt-out to begin with. A browser can not call itself privacy respecting if it is not zero telemetry by default.
Re:Google delays phasing out ad cookies on Chrome until 2024
by encryptluks2 on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @11:40PM
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You can also disable phoning home in Chromium.