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Re:How to Turn Off Google's "Privacy Sandbox" Ad Tracking–an... by out-of-ideas on Thursday December 21, 2023 @11:35PM (#38730973)
i dont have any degraded experience of "google services on firefox"; sounds quite false. Of course i dont have my browser feeding into google 24/7 like folks do with chrome now (but even that "feature" is still relatively new).

People switched when google (having the site everybody went to daily) started advertising on the home page "use our browser" - must be nice; and in the start it seemed like a tool for users to use to harvest data; unlike today where chrome is the tool that the data-collectors use to harvest people

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Re:How to Turn Off Google's "Privacy Sandbox" Ad Tracking–an... by chii on Thursday December 21, 2023 @11:55PM (#38731082)
Google did start advertising chrome, but the speed of chrome (and stability) was not fake and it won over the early adopters.

Firefox dropped the ball at the time, and now even tho it has mostly caught up in speed and stability, their market share doesn't grow because it's not substantially better feature wise.

May be the adblock wars can change that, because chrome seems to be going towards eliminating adblocker.

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Re:How to Turn Off Google's "Privacy Sandbox" Ad Tracking–an... by flurie on Friday December 22, 2023 @12:06AM (#38731138)
There's a feature I use heavily that I cannot get in Chrome: Multi-Account Containers[1].

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...

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Re:How to Turn Off Google's "Privacy Sandbox" Ad Tracking–an... by chii on Friday December 22, 2023 @01:14AM (#38731461)
unfortunately, such a feature is so niche that almost nobody cares about it, and so does not move the needle in the fight against chrome.

According to a quick statistic search, firefox has about 363 million users, while the multi-account addon has about 368,938 users - that's 0.1% of users. Compared to ublock origin, which has 7,388,295 and thus is at least within 2% of all users.

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Re:How to Turn Off Google's "Privacy Sandbox" Ad Tracking–an... by out-of-ideas on Monday January 01, 2024 @06:11PM (#38836190)
i do wish FF shipped the multi-account-containers bundled with the install of FF; it is quite possibly the #1 most used plugin - esp with each tab being a random temp containter. It might be confusing for some folks with the advanced bit; but professionally it saves the day when testing front ends and peoples instructions are "clear your cache, find out how via your browser ect" - nah just open a new temp container
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