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Google is an ad company, ad blockers are bad. Why are you using a browser from an advertising company and expecting different results? Microsoft repurposed Goo

Google is an ad company, ad blockers are bad. Why are you using a browser from an advertising company and expecting different results? Microsoft repurposed Google's adware in Chrome into Edge telemetry/spyware to feed your browsing directly into windows telemetry to watch everything you do, they wanted that back when IE lost the war. Google already went evil and set the precedent removing adblocking capabilities, now Microsoft can just blame them and feed everything you do into Bing for ad money as well as telemetry/spyware without you blocking it, that's effectively double-dipping all in on stupid windows users.

Marsymars 2mo ago
Hey now, I use Edge on macOS.
- frizlab 2mo ago
  Why?
  - Marsymars 2mo ago
    Firefox is my main browser, but I use all of Safari/Vivaldi/Edge with some specific configuration for some specific things. Edge primarily just to access MS sites, logging into the browser with MS account makes it easy.
  - bastard_op 2mo ago
    They must love giving their personal information to Microsoft. Mac users are used to it with the icloud "privacy" proxy they default enable on macos/ios users to slurp everything they do already, so I guess why limit yourself to giving your info to only to Tim Apple. Microsoft needs love too.
    - frizlab 2mo ago
      A shame I can’t downvote this. It is both factually false, and worded in a very aggressive way. iCloud private relay is only available for iCloud+ users. It cannot be enabled by default, and is not, even for iCloud+ users BTW. iCloud private relay is a novel dual-party VPN-like technology where neither party involved gets to be able to track the user, says Apple. Yes, it requires trust to believe it, but I tend to think the company the size of Apple would not go around throwing statements like these if they weren’t true, at least to the best of their knowledge, especially since privacy and trust is literally one of the core of Apple businesses… They would be lynched if it were proven that this is false. Finally your comment was posted after the person my comment was directed to answered a perfectly reasonable answer!
      - frizlab 2mo ago
        https://appleinsider.com/articles/26/08/11/icloud-private-relay-failures-manifest-a-new-class-action-lawsuit-against-apple https://appleinsider.com/articles/26/08/11/icloud-private-re... Well, there it is. They are lynched.
tim333 2mo ago
I use Chrome. uBlock Origin Lite works fine, basically as well as the old uBlock as far as I can tell. As to why, I kind of like it - the built in Google Lens tool is cool and I don't think is in the other browsers?
navigate8310 2mo ago
Unfortunately, Chromium is widespread and extremely optimised for any HW it lays its hand on.

Marsymars 2mo ago

Hey now, I use Edge on macOS.

frizlab 2mo ago
Why?
- Marsymars 2mo ago
  Firefox is my main browser, but I use all of Safari/Vivaldi/Edge with some specific configuration for some specific things. Edge primarily just to access MS sites, logging into the browser with MS account makes it easy.
- bastard_op 2mo ago
  They must love giving their personal information to Microsoft. Mac users are used to it with the icloud "privacy" proxy they default enable on macos/ios users to slurp everything they do already, so I guess why limit yourself to giving your info to only to Tim Apple. Microsoft needs love too.
  - frizlab 2mo ago
    A shame I can’t downvote this. It is both factually false, and worded in a very aggressive way. iCloud private relay is only available for iCloud+ users. It cannot be enabled by default, and is not, even for iCloud+ users BTW. iCloud private relay is a novel dual-party VPN-like technology where neither party involved gets to be able to track the user, says Apple. Yes, it requires trust to believe it, but I tend to think the company the size of Apple would not go around throwing statements like these if they weren’t true, at least to the best of their knowledge, especially since privacy and trust is literally one of the core of Apple businesses… They would be lynched if it were proven that this is false. Finally your comment was posted after the person my comment was directed to answered a perfectly reasonable answer!
    - frizlab 2mo ago
      https://appleinsider.com/articles/26/08/11/icloud-private-relay-failures-manifest-a-new-class-action-lawsuit-against-apple https://appleinsider.com/articles/26/08/11/icloud-private-re... Well, there it is. They are lynched.

tim333 2mo ago

I use Chrome. uBlock Origin Lite works fine, basically as well as the old uBlock as far as I can tell. As to why, I kind of like it - the built in Google Lens tool is cool and I don't think is in the other browsers?

navigate8310 2mo ago

Unfortunately, Chromium is widespread and extremely optimised for any HW it lays its hand on.