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

submitted 9 months ago by rimu@piefed.social to c/technology@lemmy.world

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If you can, use Firefox.

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[–] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 106 points 9 months ago (3 children)

And mine is making the switch from Firefox to Chrome next year. I'm so fucking mad about it.

[–] roertel@lemmy.world 84 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Ditto. The security department made the push because too many people were installing unapproved addons like ublock. They are mandating chrome, "for security". LMAO

The irony is that people are signing into chrome with personal gmail and leaking stuff.

[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 94 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

You can lockdown user addons in both chrome and firefox via GPO. You can also auto install them with the same policies if you like. Both browsers have enterpise admx files available.

Your security department sounds like they are bad at their jobs.

[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 84 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Your security department sounds like they are bad at their jobs.

First time in corporate?

[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 32 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Nah. I work in the field.

Im well aware of bad security teams. Looks like they got one.

[–] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 27 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Came here to say the exact same thing. It really is amazing to me just how many IT professionals are bad at their jobs.

[–] FrostyTrichs@lemmy.world 29 points 9 months ago

Tech is a boogie man to many executypes. I've seen plenty of IT pros that were in over their head but smooth enough con men. If they keep coming up with things to throw money at/trim money out of convincingly they have long and successful careers.

[–] oce@jlai.lu 4 points 9 months ago

I don't think it's worse than any other office job.

[–] boywar3@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Meanwhile, I'm over here unable to find an IT job :')

[–] thecrotch@sh.itjust.works 6 points 9 months ago

When I lost my job over the summer I put my resume on dice and immediately had 3-4 guys with Indian accents calling me every day. I found a new job within a week. I still get emails and texts though, can't put the genie back in the bottle

[–] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 19 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

uBlock Origin is pretty much approved by Mozilla and ads are a big attack vector while Chrome is spyware.

If they use Windows, you can use Firefox Portable of PortableApps.

[–] oce@jlai.lu 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Change of manager?

[–] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 9 points 9 months ago

Not sure, it's a big corpo so the decision is far from me. Probably bribes or a C level exec that likes Chrome on his home laptop.

[–] OfficerBribe@lemm.ee 7 points 9 months ago

Switch to Edge would make sense due to how well it integrates with things like your Entra ID account, choosing Chrome now is bizarre. We also had Chrome as primary browser for years, but now we are pushing Edge as primary browser. Firefox was and still is an option for us as well.