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Google Chrome Will Track You for the Next 200 Days–Then It May Get Worse
- Grimeton 2y agoRun Chrome? Open this page: chrome://serviceworker-internals and have fun.
- beardyw 2y agoThat's a list of service workers on your device. Not sure what point you are making. Service workers are an accepted JavaScript standard across browsers.
- beardyw 2y agoFor Firefox: > If you want to see a list of information concerning all the service workers registered on your browser, you can visit about:debugging#/runtime/this-firefox . Below the list of installed extensions you'll find a list of all the service workers you have registered.
- michaelt 2y agoPersonally I've had serviceworkers disabled in my browser for several years, as it seemed a pretty obvious supercookie mechanism. Disabling them doesn't seem to break anything except push notifications - and I also have those disabled, so that's fine with me.
- DevX101 2y agoGet a browser that doesn't have a massive financial incentive to track you: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/ https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/
- ramesh31 2y agoThere's really never been a better time to switch. Modern Firefox is just as (or more) performant than Chrome these days, and crossbrowser concerns are a thing of the past. I've been daily driving it for a couple years now with zero issues.
- Grimeton 2y agoWait, Firefox. Didn't they push DNS over HTTPS? Doesn't that allow you to track all the requests a user makes on the server side? I mean the server operators could sell that data, subtract their operating costs, divide by two and then push huge donations to Firefox. Firefox wouldn't track you or sell your data. Right?
- r00fus 2y agoGreat job on finding the one thing (perhaps 2 including pocket) compared to the extensive list of past transgressions by Google's Chrome team. I greatly disagree with this kind of whataboutism brought up to whitewash the biggest offenders.
- Grimeton 2y agoYou know, the issue at hand is that they _ALL_ do it. But some tell you they don't and do it anyway in ways that make it not as easy to detect. And it's those sneaky ones that are really, REALLY bad, no matter what others have or haven't done.
- pogopop77 2y agoMozilla is a non-profit that made a couple of poor decisions. Meanwhile Google's whole business model is based around it. It is not the same thing at all.
- greyface- 2y agoMozilla Foundation is a non-profit. Mozilla Corporation, a for-profit corporation which develops Firefox, made those bad decisions.
- yjftsjthsd-h 2y ago> Didn't they push DNS over HTTPS? Doesn't that allow you to track all the requests a user makes on the server side? Making DNS requests usually involves sending the query to a server that could track you; this has been true since long before DNS over HTTPS was even imagined. It's just a question of who is tracking you; the way Firefox migrated means that requests were concentrated on Cloudflare but nobody else can see the queries. Whether this is good or bad depends on your threat model.
- ta1243 2y agoIn the old days the advertising industry didn't rely on tracking cookies. It showed you the monkey, you punched it, and job done.
- phailhaus 2y ago> It means at least 200 more days of the kind of Chrome user tracking that should have been banished years ago. This kind of writing makes me question if the author understands the tech they're writing about. Chrome itself isn't doing any user-tracking through cookies, full stop. Websites you visit have 3rd party trackers embedded in them, and they are the ones tracking your behavior. They're watching your every move and using it to build up a profile, so they can send you targeted ads. But since they're 3rd party, you have no control over what they learn about you. Clearly the right way forward is decentralization: you should have control over your own data, and choose exactly what a site knows about you (if anything). The only way to do that is to move the data into your browser! I don't understand why the Privacy Sandbox initiative isn't seen more positively, when it gives you direct control over your profile.
- yjftsjthsd-h 2y ago> Chrome itself isn't doing any user-tracking through cookies, full stop. Well, no, Chrome itself is doing its user tracking through the Topics API.