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Google is killing privacy sandbox and keeping third-party cookies in Chrome.
(privacysandbox.com)
Stop using Chrome
this post was submitted on 22 Apr 2025
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What is chrome - Firefox
I've been on Firefox for a very long time because of shit like this. I run FF on my phone as well. Might look into Fennec.
you can use ironfox too.
Never been happier to see some cookies (I can delete or block).
Imagine a world where browsers were primarily funded by donation, with every release bringing something new and exciting to the table to entice new donators, rather than milk the customer for ad revenue.
That was nice... Oh well, back to hell, I guess.
The goal of the Privacy Sandbox initiative is to develop new ways to strengthen online privacy while ensuring a sustainable, ad-supported internet.
Like, that's all you need to know about what it ever was.
Also, the article is essentially a bunch of barely meaningful corporate blubber in an attempt to disguise the main message.
This is good actually, "privacy sandbox" is like baked in ad targeting service. Better to just block third party cookies. I've only needed third party cookies for microsoft 365 stuff.
start using firefox or firefox derivatives like librewolf. I know people will say "but they don't have x feature" or "chrome is faster" well until they have the market share they won't be able to put the development cycles in to fix that stuff. google owning chrome and everyone using chrome based browsers is lining up a huge issue for the future.
Every once in a while I will try something like degoogled chromium because hey it’s probably a bit faster or works in a few more places.
But then nope, right back to librewolf. It works on everything I need it to work on, and I use the browser all day. I use Linux at work so all the Microsoft suite like outlook, teams, and onenote are webpages.
Floorp is a nice one to use and deserves a mention.
Absolutely there are plenty of good niche ones. I think zen is based on Firefox as well and lots of people like it.
Mercury is another
From my experience, it's almost always "Chrome doesn't have feature x". It's the most feature poor browser currently in wide use. The only advantage that comes to mind is web dev tools, which: a) 99% of people don't care about, because they aren't web devs. b) Chromium also has, and it's like the considerably less infuriating twin.
As pointed out elsewhere around these comments, this looks like another classic example of enshittification. Just like everything that's invented, it often starts out with a fairly solid design--it couldn't succeed without that. Once the success is captured, they can start dissecting the design and figure out what parts can be made with cheaper materials (common example: replacing metal w/plastic) and/or cheaper tech. From that point it's iterations of further cuts to material and tech until it's the cheapest, flimsiest version that can still function well enough to outlast the warranty. I've been in my field long enough (appliance repair) to see generations come and go and it often runs that route. Sometimes design flaws get fixed during the process, but rarely does the product itself get better or more durable in the long run.
It's all to perpetuate a cycle of abuse.
I've noticed that it has nothing to do with the absolute amounts of currency being exchanged by either party. It's all about seeing how low people's standards are, and then trying to nudge them just a bit 🤏 lower.
This has been going on for generations. Every time a generation lowers its standards, a new normal is achieved and businesses immediately try lowering standards further.
Advertising should be straight up illegal, but we've been conditioned since birth to accept it as normal. Youtubers aren't just rewarded with money for putting extra ads in their videos, they're rewarded with money for contributing to a new normal and lowering our standards.
This is why there are no good deals anywhere.
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