Why You Suddenly Need To Delete Google Chrome

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdof...-10-android-and-apple-iphones-ipads-and-macs/
Aug 28, 2021,06:30am EDT

 

This news does not come as a "new nasty suprise" to me. I am not surprised at all. I didn't expect anything else from Google.

 

Vivaldi & Chromium FTW.

 

Exactly this.

 

Yes, it isn't exactly news. https://browseraudit.com/

Safari


Firefox


Vivaldi


Chrome

 

Personally, I find it difficult to get too worked up about this. The privacy/tracking aspect can definitely be improved upon, but I am not motivated to suddenly delete Chrome because of anything put forth in this article. Just my opinion.

 

https://blogs.chapman.edu/informati...cross-site-tracking-on-your-internet-browser/

 

Pretty much stopped using Chrome when I discovered that Brave offered me Chrome’s advantage without any disadvantage to me.

So this kind of articles only help to reinforce my change of browser.

 

I don't think Chrome's that far behind Firefox and Safari in privacy and tracking. But it's been known for quite a while that it has lost its lead. Safari has surprised me though, I use it a lot.

 

Regarding turning off cross-site tracking in Chrome, I am not convinced that enabling the "do not track" setting is actually effective. Better to utilize privacy tools such as Decentraleyes, Privacy Possum, Adguard, etc. And I believe that by not logging into a Google account, I am preventing a great deal of the tracking. Just my opinion.

Edit in: In a somewhat dated article (2019), the ineffectiveness of Do Not Track requests is discussed... The "Do Not Track" Setting Doesn't Stop You from Being Tracked

 

Good points. I am also drawn to Chrome's security. Everytime there is a browser update, I look at the security fixes. To me, that is a huge plus in using Chrome. It could even be said that the privacy issues are the price one pays for the security enhancements. Just my opinion.

 

I don't honestly believe there's much between the main popular browsers today, with certain privacy/security extensions added of course. Apple's 'walled garden' approach to Safari seems to be paying off. It's just a pity there aren't that many extensions available for it.

 

https://www.reddit.com/r/privacytoo...ould_i_use_localcdn_instead_of_decentraleyes/

 

You're probably right. Ultimately, when we drill down, we find ourselves in fine-toothed comb territory.

 

Or our drill breaks lol.

 

Decentraleyes is toast? Oh crap!

Probably inevitable ... and so it goes ...

 

From time to time I encounter a website that doesn't work correctly unless I disable Decentraleyes. That tells me it is working.

 

Oh, so not quite toast then? That's good.

 

Well, Total Cookie Protection (available with ETP in Strict Mode) is something not offered in other browsers. It's an enhancement of the former First-Party Isolation and is an excellent protection against cross-site tracking, even more so in combination with State Partitioning which goes further than what, e.g., Brave is doing.

And if it comes to security I think that now with Fission enabled Firefox is on par with Chrome.

 

Thanks for the info, very interesting. According to the browseraudit.com results I got Firefox isn't just on par with Chrome, but slightly ahead of it. On my Mac computers Safari is showing the best anti-tracking and overall security by a small margin with Firefox a close second. On Ubuntu, Firefox is just ahead of Chrome and Vivaldi.

 

This is why I dropped it. It was breaking sites and it took a while to figure out it was this and not the site. Another instance where I like the idea of this tool but it's more trouble than it's worth.

 

Ahha! Thanks guys.

 

I'll have to keep an eye on Decentraleyes.

 

Support seems to have ended in Nov 2020.

After about 2½ years with it, replaced with LocalCND in Firefox in April.

A significant fork/upgrade, vastly improved, highly configurable, well supported.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/localcdn-fork-of-decentraleyes/

https://www.localcdn.org/

Cheers

 

OK, thanks for the info, I appreciate it.