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Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome (arstechnica.com)

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If you can, use Firefox.

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[-] finalarbiter@lemmy.world 20 points 4 months 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⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

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