Got this notification when I opened Chrome when coming back to my desk after lunch.

“We changed our privacy settings to allow us to snoop on what you’re looking at and shove you ads accordingly. Feel free to opt out, but we’ll probably opt you back in when you aren’t paying attention.”

  • TheCaconym [any]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    Chrome is now - and has been for a while - actively a threat towards its users (on top of being one towards the web itself). Here is a recent list of hostile moves, for example.

    In terms of threat towards users Windows 10/11 is even worse, by a large margin - it actively and very aggressively spies on you.

    Use firefox and switch to Linux (I suggest Debian), comrade penguin-love