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The critical issue is that Firefox, Safari, and Edge all implement tracking prevention. When Microsoft switched Edge to Chromium, they implemented tracking prev
by ocdtrekkie 6y ago
The critical issue is that Firefox, Safari, and Edge all implement tracking prevention. When Microsoft switched Edge to Chromium, they implemented tracking prevention on top of Chrome, that Google refuses to implement because they're an ad company.
Note that removing tracking scripts and some ads significantly improves browsing speed and web performance as well. So even if privacy isn't your top concern, it's just... faster.
This makes Edge simply... a better version of Chrome than Chrome.
- haecceity 6y agoIs tracking prevention just builtin adblock?
- ocdtrekkie 6y agoThere's overlap, but the focus is different. An ad blocker might not care about Google Analytics, which doesn't show ads. Meanwhile tracking prevention might not care about a banner ad that doesn't do any sort of tracking when it runs. Tracking prevention will block some ads but it's focus is potentially privacy-violating script.