#GoogleChrome is going to keep third-party cookies turned on by default, but it's pretty easy to turn them off (along with other ad features) by putting a "managed policies" file in the right place. Saves having to remember to do it for all users and profiles. (And there's a similar file to control the built-in ad features in #Firefox, too.)

https://blog.zgp.org/turning-off-browser-ad-features-from-the-command-line/

With #GoogleChrome's "incognito" mode, *you* can't track what websites you've visited, but #Google (and therefore a lot of other websites, advertisers and whatnot) can and do

Using #LibreWolf with history turned on, I have it the other way round: I can track *my own* history, but other people can't!

Revolutionary, right?

#GoogleChrome disables #uBlockOrigin for some in #ManifestV3 rollout

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/google/google-chrome-disables-ublock-origin-for-some-in-manifest-v3-rollout/

Google Chrome blocking Ublock Origin and Violentmonkey as of today. I wonder why.

My new app Browser Actions adds #macOS #Shortcuts support for #GoogleChrome, #MicrosoftEdge, #Safari, #Vivaldi, #Chromium, and #BraveBrowser! Now you can use Shortcuts to …

- create, find, filter, manipulate browser windows/ tabs/ pages
- work with browser menus
- send keystrokes, mimic typing
- interact w/ pages, click and scroll
- fill out forms
- extract info, selection as plain text or #Markdown (tables and everything!), the current DOM, all text content, etc.

https://actions.work/browser-actions

Anyone know what's up with uBlock Origin? #privacy #uBlockOrigin #googleChrome #extensions

#facebook has to be taking a piss... only #googlechrome and #microsoftedge support encryption for messenger. I would really love if I could convince more of my friends and acquaintances to use @signalapp

If you use any extensions in Google Chrome, worth checking that none of them are on this list of Chrome extensions that were hacked just before Christmas last year:
https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/01/dozens-of-backdoored-chrome-extensions-discovered-on-2-6-million-devices/

(Hat tip @zackwhittaker)

"Hackers have compromised several different companies' Chrome browser extensions in a series of intrusions dating back to mid-December, according to one of the victims and experts who have examined the campaign.

Among the victims was the California-based Cyberhaven, a data protection company that confirmed the breach in a statement to Reuters on Friday.

"Cyberhaven can confirm that a malicious cyberattack occurred on Christmas Eve, affecting our Chrome extension," the statement said. It cited public comments from cybersecurity experts. These comments, said Cyberhaven, suggested that the attack was "part of a wider campaign to target Chrome extension developers across a wide range of companies."

Cyberhaven added: "We are actively cooperating with federal law enforcement.""

https://www.reuters.com/technology/cybersecurity/data-loss-prevention-company-cyberhaven-hit-by-breach-statement-says-2024-12-27/

I am glad to be able to join @article19's #DMA Enforcement Symposium today; plenty of #competition experts here for me to discuss the impact of the #DOJ's recommendation to break up #Google

#Google shutting down or selling off Chrome is the worst thing that can happen to consumers. No other company (except the likes of MS, #Oracle etc) have the ability to maintain that beast. And having them getting it, they might close source it, or become a privacy nightmare (worse than it is now). At least, we can still de-google Chromium now.

Maintaining browsers is HARD. Google had the talent in-house, and that was life giving.

YOU! Yes, you there, with the face and the browser!

Are you curious about using #macOS #Shortcuts for automating #GoogleChrome, #MicrosoftEdge, #Vivaldi, #Chromium, #BraveBrowser, and #Safari? Of course you are, because you're a sharp one (and looking sharp, by the way)!

In any case, check out Browser Actions (beta)! I just published a new version.
https://actions.work/browser-actions

And maybe/please boost this post, I'd really appreciate it!

2024 Q3 update from #googlechrome security https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/quarterly-updates/#q3-2024

#Google #GoogleChrome #AdBlockers #AdBlocking: "Google’s new rules will likely affect almost all Chromium browsers, including Chrome and Microsoft Edge (a support page from Microsoft shows that Edge is also losing access to the Web Request API). While that sounds bleak, you still have a couple of options to keep blocking ads like you always have.

For now, there’s an easy but temporary solution to get uBlock Origin or other Manifest V2 ad blockers working again: just turn them back on.

According to Google’s Chromium blog, while the company is currently in the process of automatically disabling all Manifest V2 extensions, which is what your current ad blocker probably is, it will temporarily allow users to manually turn them back on “for a short time.” This toggle will go away “over time,” but given that not everyone is even getting their extensions disabled yet—it seems to be happening in waves, and my uBlock Origin works fine at the moment—you should still see it for now.

If Chrome tells you that it’s turned off your ad blocker, follow these steps to re-enable it."

https://lifehacker.com/tech/google-cracking-down-on-ad-blockers

No, it's running on FreeBSD, thanks to the Linuxulator

#USA #Google #Search #GoogleChrome #Monopolies #BigTech #Competition #Antitrust: "The big question, of course, is whether the court will order Google to break up, say, by selling off Android, its ad-tech stack, and Chrome. That's a question I'll address on another day. For today, I want to think about how to de-monopolize browsers, the key portal to the internet. The world has two extremely dominant browsers, Safari and Chrome, and each of them are owned by an operating system vendor that pre-installs their own browser on their devices and pre-selects them as the default.

Defaults matter. That's a huge part of Judge Mehta's finding in the Google case, where the court saw evidence from Google's own internal research suggesting that people rarely change defaults, meaning that whatever the gadget does out of the box it will likely do forever. This puts a lie to Google's longstanding defense of its monopoly power: "choice is just a click away." Sure, it's just a click away – a click, you're pretty sure no one is ever going to make.

This means that any remedy to Google's browser dominance is going to involve a lot of wrangling about defaults. That's not a new wrangle, either. For many years, regulators and tech companies have tinkered with "choice screens" that were nominally designed to encourage users to try out different browsers and brake the inertia of the big two browsers that came bundled with OSes.

These choice screens have a mixed record."

https://pluralistic.net/2024/08/12/defaults-matter/#make-up-your-mind-already

Now that Google Chrome no longer supports uBlockOrigin. I wonder how many will move to Firefox or will just accept the lack of effective tracker protections afforded by uBlockOrigin.

Hopefully the numbers that jump will be significant.

Am I crazy, or is there no built-in way in #Safari for #iOS to view the TLS certificate of a website?

1) @brave shows it in full
2) #GoogleChrome only shows the issuer under “Site Information”
3) #Firefox only shows “Connection is secure”
4) #MicrosoftEdge doesn’t show it