How to Turn Off Google's "Privacy Sandbox" Ad Tracking–and Why You Should

Re:How to Turn Off Google's "Privacy Sandbox" Ad Tracking–an... by freeAgent on Thursday December 21, 2023 @09:45PM (#38730332)

How much more evil do you want Google to get before it’s problematic that they control the portal through which most people interact with the web (both browser/engine and search)? And why not use Firefox (or Safari/WebKit) already?

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Re:How to Turn Off Google's "Privacy Sandbox" Ad Tracking–an... by jorvi on Thursday December 21, 2023 @11:24PM (#38730918)

> And why not use Firefox (or Safari/WebKit) already?

Mozilla these days seems more happy at pumping out tech-woke messages rather than being privacy first. Hell, they’ve refused to add an adblocker to their iOS browser for years now.

3rd party WebKit browsers are more rare, thus less well-developed.

I’ve settled on using Brave.

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Re:How to Turn Off Google's "Privacy Sandbox" Ad Tracking–an... by trinsic2 on Friday December 22, 2023 @12:00AM (#38731107)

I like Brave, but I cant recommend it to my less-than-techie friends because of the bullshit that you have go through to disable (VPN, Wallet, advert related stuff, etc), which confuses people and gets in the way.

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Re:How to Turn Off Google's "Privacy Sandbox" Ad Tracking–an... by jorvi on Friday December 22, 2023 @12:36AM (#38731289)

Yeah I agree it is annoying, but ultimately browser dev needs to be paid for somehow.

Brave does it via their extras. Mozilla mostly via their search deal with Google.

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Re:How to Turn Off Google's "Privacy Sandbox" Ad Tracking–an... by phatskat on Friday December 22, 2023 @02:17AM (#38731773)

What are “tech-woke” messages?

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Re:How to Turn Off Google's "Privacy Sandbox" Ad Tracking–an... by jorvi on Friday December 22, 2023 @08:37AM (#38733996)

https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/mozilla-now-only-...

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Re:How to Turn Off Google's "Privacy Sandbox" Ad Tracking–an... by godelski on Saturday December 23, 2023 @02:39AM (#38742403)

> Today, I upgraded to Firefox 106. Upon opening Firefox, I received a very creepy message saying:

> "Thank you for loving Firefox".

> I really resent the presumptuousness of this message. I never told you I "loved" Firefox. How could anyone "love" a Web browser? It's a functional tool: a doorway to the Web.

I am dying. This has to be one of the funniest things I've read all year.

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Re:How to Turn Off Google's "Privacy Sandbox" Ad Tracking–an... by lolc on Sunday December 24, 2023 @07:54PM (#38758569)

Agreed that was fun to read. I can relate as sometimes I too get angry and rant at marketing copy. And really, why does Mozilla want me to pick a color for Firefox when I just want to use it? I guess I'll stop now.

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Re:How to Turn Off Google's "Privacy Sandbox" Ad Tracking–an... by godelski on Sunday December 24, 2023 @09:21PM (#38759055)

> why does Mozilla want me to pick a color for Firefox when I just want to use it?

Guess I just don't care. Some people want it. I mean I change my theme. But there's defaults and I don't have to think about most of these things and they don't affect me or anyone I know, so why care? lol

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