[HN Gopher] Google delays phasing out ad cookies on Chrome until...
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       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)
        
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       | 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.
        
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