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You need tracker blocking extensions, and/or a "degoogled" version of Chrome like Thorium or Brave. My usual loadout is Thorium + the EFF's Privacy Badger exte

You need tracker blocking extensions, and/or a "degoogled" version of Chrome like Thorium or Brave. My usual loadout is Thorium + the EFF's Privacy Badger extension, and sometimes UBO.

awinter-py 3y ago
can you say why degoogled chromium matters for tracking, or link to a writeup?
- brucethemoose2 3y ago
  The Ungoogled Chromium project itself is a pretty good summary. In a nutshell, Chromium (whether signed in or not) "phones home" to Google for a number of reasons, and the official Chrome builds do it even more (though in harder to observe ways since the changes are closed source). https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium
  - awinter-py 3y ago
    whoa fascinating -- I tried ungoogled chromium a while ago and it has come a long way it looks like some of their patches are now built into debian? Like on this list: https://udd.debian.org/patches.cgi?src=chromium&version=114.0.5735.133-1 https://udd.debian.org/patches.cgi?src=chromium&version=114.... disable/signin.patch seems to reference the ungoogled chromium repo
2rsf 3y ago
Extensions are blocked for "security and privacy concerns", and our internal systems don't work well with non standard browsers for some reason
- deleted 3y ago
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- brucethemoose2 3y ago
  Hmm, Thorium should be fine, at the very least? Its very close to vanilla Chromium/Google Chrome, with nothing that should mess up rendering. There are also experimental Windows builds of Bromite (another Chrome fork that is very close to Chromium, but with a light built-in adblocker.) https://github.com/uazo/bromite-buildtools#test-windows-version https://github.com/uazo/bromite-buildtools#test-windows-vers...
meatjuice 3y ago
Brave’s worse. It injects affiliate links without notifying users. Honestly, I can’t understand why do people still use brave as a “privacy browser”.

You need tracker blocking extensions, and/or a "degoogled" version of Chrome like Thorium or Brave. My usual loadout is Thorium + the EFF's Privacy Badger extension, and sometimes UBO.

awinter-py 3y ago

can you say why degoogled chromium matters for tracking, or link to a writeup?

brucethemoose2 3y ago
The Ungoogled Chromium project itself is a pretty good summary. In a nutshell, Chromium (whether signed in or not) "phones home" to Google for a number of reasons, and the official Chrome builds do it even more (though in harder to observe ways since the changes are closed source). https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium
- awinter-py 3y ago
  whoa fascinating -- I tried ungoogled chromium a while ago and it has come a long way it looks like some of their patches are now built into debian? Like on this list: https://udd.debian.org/patches.cgi?src=chromium&version=114.0.5735.133-1 https://udd.debian.org/patches.cgi?src=chromium&version=114.... disable/signin.patch seems to reference the ungoogled chromium repo

2rsf 3y ago

Extensions are blocked for "security and privacy concerns", and our internal systems don't work well with non standard browsers for some reason

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brucethemoose2 3y ago
Hmm, Thorium should be fine, at the very least? Its very close to vanilla Chromium/Google Chrome, with nothing that should mess up rendering. There are also experimental Windows builds of Bromite (another Chrome fork that is very close to Chromium, but with a light built-in adblocker.) https://github.com/uazo/bromite-buildtools#test-windows-version https://github.com/uazo/bromite-buildtools#test-windows-vers...

meatjuice 3y ago

Brave’s worse. It injects affiliate links without notifying users. Honestly, I can’t understand why do people still use brave as a “privacy browser”.