[HN Gopher] Google delays phasing out ad cookies on Chrome until... ___________________________________________________________________ Google delays phasing out ad cookies on Chrome until 2024 Author : cpeterso Score : 16 points Date : 2022-07-27 22:17 UTC (42 minutes ago) (HTM) web link (www.bloomberg.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.bloomberg.com) | frumper wrote: | I know it's been the case for a while, but as time goes on I | actually feel more like the product when I need to use Chrome. | They aren't building it for me, they're building it to sell me. | charles_kaw wrote: | Firefox has done a wonderful job of building first class | privacy features into their browser. It's fast, and responsive. | They have some leadership issues, but the technical side of | things seems to be doing well. | | I switched to it as my main browser a few years back and it's | been fine and hiccup-free. | smoldesu wrote: | Really? I use Chromium and feel nothing of the sort. I don't | get any notifications asking me to "Try the new Chrome!" when I | upgrade my OS, and I don't get my links hijacked when I try | opening arbitrary files. It doesn't have a weird crypto scheme | funding it, there's no weird virtue-signally marketing team | ruining things with every update... Chrome is one of the few | browsers that _isn 't_ pushing that stuff on you, at least when | you remove the Google bits. | unixbane wrote: | dang wrote: | " _Please don 't fulminate._" | | https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html | unixbane wrote: | Well I can make an article and submit it if you want saying | the same thing. This is an issue that badly needs to be | addressed. The software industry is crap and HN are not | angels or not complicit. | dang wrote: | "HN" is millions of people. All kinds of views are | represented here and I'm sure many people agree with you. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-07-27 23:00 UTC)