Chrome now directly tracks users, generates a "topic" list it shares with advertisers.

If you can, use Firefox.

  • thelasttoot@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    I wish I could stick to Firefox but I’ve been having trouble with looping captchas on there. 90% of the time Firefox works fine but there’s still a handful of websites that just refuse to work unless I’m using chrome.

    • finalarbiter@lemmy.worldEnglish
      18·
      1 year ago

      Some websites intentionally change behavior based on your user agent. There are plenty of extensions for Firefox that let you change it so sites think you’re using chrome instead. It’s wild to me that’s even a thing, but ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯