Google asks websites to kindly not break its shiny new targeted-advertising API

Re:Google asks websites to kindly not break its shiny new ta... by wintermutestwin on Tuesday June 27, 2023 @09:48AM (#36492711)

>So tell me again why I would ever use a browser created by an adTech company?

So tell me again why I would ever use a browser that lacks functional vertical tabs? Yes, some chrome-based browsers have vertical tabs (brave, others?), but no browser can compare to the functionality of Firefox with Sidebery. Too bad Mozilla doesn't care about Firefox enough to bake it in and trying to turn off the damn horizontal tabs is such a convoluted process.

I'll also note that Safari's implementation of vertical tabs is hilariously bad.

And to those of you who still use horizontal tabs - if you keep more than a handful of tabs open at once, you need to graduate to the clearly superior UX of vertical tabs.

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Re:Google asks websites to kindly not break its shiny new ta... by scarface_74 on Tuesday June 27, 2023 @09:53AM (#36492787)

Vertical tabs vs being tracked all over the web with the only privacy safeguard is a pinky promise?

That’s not a hard tradeoff.

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Re:Google asks websites to kindly not break its shiny new ta... by smoldesu on Tuesday June 27, 2023 @10:24AM (#36493248)

> with the only privacy safeguard is a pinky promise?

Using the internet in any modern capacity can basically be summed up with this phrase. Unless you're running a PinePhone with a browser you compiled yourself, you're throwing stones from a glass house.

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Re:Google asks websites to kindly not break its shiny new ta... by scarface_74 on Tuesday June 27, 2023 @11:19AM (#36494138)

Is there any evidence that Apple is using your browsing history to sell ads? Are they putting their super secret ad web tracking functionality in Safari. But not putting it in WebKit?

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