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And now with Chrome as the dominant browser and the launch of F̶L̶o̶C̶ Topics, Google has strategically and systemically cemented it's position as the only enti
by metadat 3y ago
And now with Chrome as the dominant browser and the launch of F̶L̶o̶C̶ Topics, Google has strategically and systemically cemented it's position as the only entity who can effectively track individual user behavior.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federated_Learning_of_Cohorts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federated_Learning_of_Cohorts
I feel like a huge sucker accepting and taking up Chrome back in 2009. It isn't a huge shock they'd eventually want to extract and harvest "the value". It's the exploitative nature of the capitalist cycle.
I remember thinking at the time it was suspicious to use a browser from an advertising company, but looking back in hindsight, you've gotta hand it to 'em - the bait was pretty good.. fast, performant, and reliable. No other browser engine had this.
Even today, I primarily use Firefox on desktop, but with many tabs and windows open it's slower than Chrome. I'm even typing this from Brave on mobile..
- _boffin_ 3y agoApple?
- paxys 3y agoSafari has a <10% market share on desktop.
- _boffin_ 3y agoI'm not talking about just desktop. I'm talking about apple having the ability to get full insight into what users are doing via their telemetry and other avenues.
- HDThoreaun 3y agoHow does apple have insight into what users are doing on desktop?
- _boffin_ 3y agoGatekeeper https://mspoweruser.com/macos-big-sur-has-its-own-telemetry-privacy-nightmare/ https://mspoweruser.com/macos-big-sur-has-its-own-telemetry-...
- HDThoreaun 3y agoHow many people use macOS?
- _boffin_ 3y agoGood question...
- kevinh 3y agoFLoC has been dead for over a year.
- metadat 3y agoSorry, you're right. Google replaced it with the benign sounding "Topics", which from a strategic perspective is no different and gives them the same capabilities. I'll update my post.
- jsnell 3y agoThe browser will provide this data equally to any site asking for it, i.e. all the ad networks that the site is using. Not just to Google. So how exactly is this cementing anything? It seems like it's doing the opposite. It's giving everyone the same data to work with, rather than giving an advantage to the companies with a higher reach 3rd party cookie.
- chx 3y agoThis might be foolish but for me it was this simple: I trusted Chris DiBona on Chrome.
- iepathos 3y agoNot really bait just a fair deal. A free browser faster than the rest in exchange for some data on your browsing behavior that you can opt out of is a very good deal. Perhaps a competitor could arise but if they offered a comparable browser it wouldn't make business sense for it to be free unless they also were selling your browsing data. The man hours to create and keep chrome ahead of the game is significant on top of the need to offer very large bounties for sandbox escapes to minimize security risk to users.
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