Google delayed long enough to secure its ad business with new tracking methods.
      • ladEnglish
        2·
        11 months ago

        I thought privacy as per Google meant that it will trade your data with everyone interested, just will not show them your name/phone number/address (which also quite conveniently makes Google the single point of contact with you and allows to charge more)

        • RandomPancake@lemmy.worldEnglish
          111·
          11 months ago

          I know people are passionate about their love / hated of Brave, but it along with LibreWolf (and Firefox) all offer strong fingerprinting protection out of the box. With Firefox, just make sure you add uBlock Origin.

        • jaybone@lemmy.worldEnglish
          12·
          11 months ago

          Wait Firefox sends fingerprint info?

          Why is there not an open source browser that doesn’t send this shit?

          • prograhammingdev@lemmy.prograhamming.comEnglish
            9·
            11 months ago

            Firefox does not “send” it, fingerprinting is done by tagging your hardware configuration from various values and create a unique key from that - independent of being logged in or any cookies - which can be used to track you. Things like browser & device user agent, browser window size, feature support (to determine browser version), etc. All of which are passively gathered by anything you could send a request to. There are ways to reduce this that Firefox and others do (such as reducing unique values in user agent, etc) but they’re not opting in to some privacy invading reporting mechanism.

            • jaybone@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              11 months ago

              But the “various values” are sent, like you mention user agent, etc. I wonder if it makes sense to have a browser that doesn’t send all of that.

    • phoneymouse@lemmy.worldEnglish
      201·
      11 months ago

      Yeah they analyze your browser history and then generate labels of things you’re presumably interested in and then share it with any website that asks. Privacy friendly alright.