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138 votes
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Chromium team to make changes to Manifest V3 in response to ad-blocking extension developers’ outrage
36 votes -
Microsoft intercepting Firefox and Chrome installation on Windows 10
66 votes -
Google begins their push for WEI in Chromium
94 votes -
Google has kicked Ahoy! the anti-censorship app from the Chrome store
22 votes -
Must-have browser extensions?
What are some of your must have browser extensions? I recently made an effort to switch to Firefox, and now I'm looking for some good browser extensions to make my web browsing experience better....
What are some of your must have browser extensions?
I recently made an effort to switch to Firefox, and now I'm looking for some good browser extensions to make my web browsing experience better. Here are the ones I currently use:
19 votes -
Despite Chrome’s pending “mark of shame,” three major news sites aren’t HTTPS
18 votes -
Opera, Brave, Vivaldi to ignore Chrome's anti-ad-blocker changes, despite shared codebase
37 votes -
Chrome Extension Manifest V3 could end uBlock Origin for Chrome
55 votes -
Former Mozilla exec: Google has sabotaged Firefox for years
50 votes -
Most useful Chrome extensions
What are the most useful Chrome extensions that you have come across? I use this extension called Workona, which has been just amazing at dealing with my obsession with having hundreds of tabs open.
19 votes -
Google said to deliberately make YouTube slower on Microsoft Edge, Firefox
35 votes -
Contra Chrome
13 votes -
Google acquires Neverware, a company that turns old PCs into Chromebooks
13 votes -
On our abusive relationship with Mozilla’s Firefox
10 votes -
Facebook banned someone for developing a Chrome extension designed to reduce its addictiveness
27 votes -
Turn on auto-updates everywhere you can
13 votes -
Firefox outperforms Chrome in speed for the first time according to a Speedometer assessment
75 votes -
Is there a Google-free future for Firefox?
27 votes -
Give Firefox a chance for a faster, calmer and distraction-free internet
27 votes -
Chrome uses ten to thirteen percent more RAM due to Google's 'Site Isolation' protection for Spectre CPU flaws
14 votes -
Google has quietly added DuckDuckGo as a search engine option for Chrome users in ~sixty markets
21 votes -
How to find out which extension opened an advertising tab?
Recently I've been coming back to my chrome browsers to find a tab open with the following URL: (link disabled to prevent giving them any more clicks) https...
Recently I've been coming back to my chrome browsers to find a tab open with the following URL:
(link disabled to prevent giving them any more clicks)https ://theaisecrets.beehiiv.com/p/chatgpt-can-now-work-docs-apps-websites-emails
This is happening across all my computers, both linux, windows, and linux VM, so I don't think it's OS-specific malware, but I suspect a rogue chrome extension is opening the tab, because I have chrome synced across all affected devices via my google account.
I've searched for this particular problem and URL to no avail, so I wondered if there's a way to track back which extension opened the tab, other than by doing a binary search disabling half my extensions at a time (which would be annoying as hell - the tabs only seem to get opened once a day or so).
14 votes -
I cut Google out of my life. It screwed up everything
38 votes -
Planned updates for Chrome 70 to give more control of browser sign-in, show sync state, and clear all cookies
30 votes -
Brave browser gets Chrome's extensions starting Thursday with major new version
20 votes -
What will a Chromium-only Web look like?
7 votes -
Incognito mode detection still works in Chrome despite promise to fix
11 votes -
Security researchers partner with Chrome to take down over 500 browser extensions in a fraud network affecting 1.7 million users
12 votes -
Chrome's new forced login policy is a violation of user privacy and trust
50 votes -
Microsoft Edge is now second most popular desktop browser, beats Firefox; Chrome at 68% market share
18 votes -
Google sends a unique Chrome browser identifier through Chrome when you visit their websites
14 votes -
Microsoft to forcibly install Bing search extension in Chrome for Office 365 ProPlus users
29 votes -
Usage share of desktop internet browsers 1996–2019
20 votes -
Mozilla takes action to protect users in Kazakhstan
26 votes -
Google drops FLoC after widespread opposition, pivots to “Topics API” plan
16 votes -
Why I’m Worried About Google - I used to trust some of its products, like Chrome. I increasingly don’t.
28 votes -
Google is messing with the address bar again—new experiment hides URL path
16 votes -
Google Chrome’s users take a back seat to its bottom line
16 votes -
Fighting cookie theft using device bound sessions
14 votes -
Google Removes the Option of Installing Chrome Extensions via Remote Sites
11 votes -
Differential privacy code removed from Chromium
In a discussion on Hacker News, Jonathan Mayer pointed out that the differential privacy code was removed from Chromium. It looks like they finished doing this in February. I haven't seen any...
In a discussion on Hacker News, Jonathan Mayer pointed out that the differential privacy code was removed from Chromium. It looks like they finished doing this in February.
I haven't seen any announcement, discussion, or explanation of this based on a brief web search, so I figured I'd note it here.
At about the time this process finished, there was a Google blog post about how they're still using it in other products.
We first deployed our world-class differential privacy anonymization technology in Chrome nearly seven years ago and are continually expanding its use across our products including Google Maps and the Assistant.
(If you read this quickly, you might think it's still used in Chrome.)
Reading between the lines, I suspect that some folks at Google are still advocating for more usage of differential privacy, but they lost an important customer. Why that happened is a mystery.
11 votes -
Helping people spot the spoofs: A URL experiment
7 votes -
Chrome now supports linking to "Text Fragments", which will automatically scroll to and highlight specific text on a page
7 votes -
Chrome Incognito mode no longer detectable in Chrome 76
@paul_irish: Chrome Incognito mode has been detectable for years, due to the FileSystem API implementation. As of Chrome 76, this is fixed. Apologies to the "detect private mode" scripts out there. 💐
17 votes -
Plausible deniability and gaslighting in fighting ad blockers
24 votes -
The Google Chrome team is developing tools, heuristics and warnings to help protect against deceptive URLs
11 votes -
Chrome's address bar will default to HTTPS
10 votes -
Chrome to start throttling resource-heavy ads in August
10 votes -
[Chrome 82, 2020Q2] Deprecate FTP support
7 votes