Google has rolled out "Privacy Sandbox," a Chrome feature first announced back in 2019 that, among other things, exchanges third-party cookies—the most common form of tracking technology—for what the company is now calling "Topics." Topics is a response to pushback against Google’s proposed...

Google did it again.

  • appel@lemmy.mlEnglish
    11·
    1 year ago

    After dragging my feet for years I finally moved back to Firefox a few weeks ago. Sure, there’s a few features I miss from Chrome/Edge (vertical tabs, PWA support, tab groups, etc.) but I was able to ‘fix’ many issues with extensions and a custom userchrome.css, and trust is ultimately more important to me.

    I’m thankful there are still free, open, privacy respecting options out there.

    • kaitco@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      There are Tab Groups add-ons for Firefox. I’m sure there might be vertical tab add-ons, too.

      As someone who never went to Chrome, I’m just sitting here trying not to be all “I told you so!” from when Chrome started to really take off a decade ago.