| Seeing this all go down, it feels like this is exactly Google’s master plan. 1. Roll out stuff they brand as “privacy respecting” that actually collects data for their own use. 2. Brand anything that would give competitors access to that data (third party cookies, user agent strings, etc) as a threat to user privacy. 3. Lock all of that stuff down so that nobody can access it (“we’re protecting you!”) 4. I don’t think we need the ???, it’s just straight to profit, via monopoly over the data. The brilliant/terrible thing about this is that third party cookie tracking is not great so it’s hard to set up a defensible argument where leaving things as they are is the better alternative. Apple and others have been waging a war on third party tracking for years now, and pushing public opinion in that direction, and it seems to me that Google is playing 4D chess here and using it against them (and frankly, the entire internet). |
Use a browser that is not made by an advertising company.
In other words, just drop chrome. It has never been easier to do, with Edge and Safari readily available on all major platforms and Firefox for those who prefer it, and of course the many other chromium forks that are around.
There is no reason to be dependent on chrome today. There was a few years where it was overly dominant and very hard to avoid for compatibility and performance reasons, but that is just not true today.
Personally I use Firefox on android and desktop and I don't miss chrome at all. I uninstalled (technically, disabled) it on mobile as Google widgets like to open links in it otherwise.
I have chrome on the desktop as I work in software so I need to test compatibility with it, but that's it.