Alerta: Extensões Chrome populares escondiam código de rastreio oculto
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Alright I now regret using #Firefox. Not because #Mozilla did shoot with the source code. Because its blocker doesn't protect my #privacy. I also regret reading about ADHD on my Android phone on #Chrome or even having a normal #Android phone.
Last week I read about ADHD on the web using Android's stock Chrome, now Google ads is showing me advertisements about ADHD. Down with you Google.
If anyone cares about their privacy, they should avoid #Google like #plague It's a pity still people use the services it offers including the search engine.
The #Web has become a bad and creepy place. For now I'm switching to #LibreWolf.
Edit: Curid from Rust offtopic Matrix room suggested this:
https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/
For Firefox it says partial protection is provided and they can fingerprint my broswer.
coveryourtracks.eff.orgCover Your TracksSee how trackers view your browser
Anybody out there know how to root really old #Android tablets in the year 2025 CE? I have a Dell Venue 3730 that is running KitKat (4.4.2) and that's the most modern thing it can run. I've been searching around the net for options and so much of it either (a) requires Windows (which I don't have) or (b) has died because of link rot, or (c) doesn't go back as far as Android 4.
I want to point this thing at a #homeassistant dashboard and make it like a remote console. But I can't get kiosk mode on something so old without rooting it (I think).
Also, the HTML that comes natively out of Lovelace is way too complex for #Chrome 32.0, which is what I have on the tablet. It just displays the HA logo and I never see more.
So I will need a simpler, possibly not websocket-based way, to load dashboards on HA, as well.
Any #mobile or #homeautomation folks have good pointers on how to do this?
TIL: Zen phones home far more than any other browser. I don’t think it is nefarious, but phoning home is resource consumption. Go with degoogled chromium / Orion / Tor if you really care.
https://sizeof.cat/post/web-browser-telemetry-2025-edition/ #browser #chrome #zen #orion
sizeof(cat)Web Browser telemetry - 2025 editionTesting various web browsers to see what network connection they open by default on the initial start.
Judge rules Google built illegal ad monopoly, DOJ threatens another breakup
The DOJ has recommended that the company sell Chrome and decouple it from Android. Google might also be forced to sell Android. Additionally, the company faces similar antitrust action in Canada, the UK, the European Union, China, India, and Japan.
https://www.techspot.com/news/107601-google-claims-partial-victory-antitrust-hearing-over-ad.html
TechSpot · Judge rules Google built illegal ad monopoly, DOJ threatens another breakup
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Here are comments on the evolution of browser share in a year.
(The three samples are heavily skewed to English-speaking higher eds.)
Last year results: https://techhub.social/@estelle/112047924116566034
You may still answer in the previous toot.
3/4 Fediverse members use #Firefox proper. Same as last year.
We welcome other parts of the Firefox family (any browser with Gecko inside):
• The share of Librewolf mentions doubled since last year.
• The share of other Gecko-based forks mentions also doubled since last year. (Even though some Waterfox usage is not logged because i did not list it.)
The shares of Chrome and Vivaldi were stable for the first thousand answerers (maybe more IT inclined) but doubled with the later thousand (in the last 24 hours).
The share of the last line (Opera-Blink-Brave mentions) decreased since last year.
Forest thru the Trees Problem. It hits me almost every time I touch technology. Most recently I wanted to help squeeze more power out of my partners PC he uses for #BG3. So I disconnected everything and blew all the heat sinks clean and fans, then plugged it all back. Then he went to use his system and Windows audio for system sounds worked fine, but not #Chrome, #Edge, or #VLC. Struggling with Windows shittastic audio controls didn’t help. It made no sense. (1/3)
57 #Chrome extensions with 6 million installs was discovered to have hidden tracking code
The code allows extensions to access cookies, monitor user browsing behaviour, modify search providers and results, inject remote scripts, and more. Once the info is extracted, the extensions sends info to an API at unknow[.]com.
Users are advised to review and remove the malicious extensions, and to only install extensions from trusted sources
#Chrome extensions with 6 million installs have hidden tracking code
6,000,000+ Installed Chrome Extensions Can Execute Remote Commands on User’s Browser https://cybersecuritynews.com/malicious-chrome-extensions/ #CyberSecurityNews #CyberSecurity #Chrome
Cyber Security News · 6,000,000+ Installed Chrome Extensions Can Execute Remote Commands on User's BrowserA major security incident has come to light involving more than six million installations of Chrome browser extensions that secretly.
Apparently a court might make Google sell off their browser, Chrome, as a separate business.
Which would be nice, but I don't get why anyone would buy it? They can't start charging a subscription to run Chrome browser.
Can you really make a business from adverts on the homepage?
A browser is a strict money-loser, with no profit or business model. Ask Mozilla.
If someone bought it, they would surely go bust, then when happens to it?
#Chrome extensions with 6 million installs have hidden tracking code https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/chrome-extensions-with-6-million-installs-have-hidden-tracking-code/
Dozens of Chrome extensions contain secret functionality to track users, a security researcher has discovered.
#Chrome #extensions #privacy #cybersecurity
https://cnews.link/network-of-chrome-extensions-contain-secret-code-track-3/
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Which browsers do you use?
• Multiple choice to account for various usage and any device (pro & perso)
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#Development #Introductions
The customizable select (part two) · Potions, anchoring, and radial shenanigans in CSS https://ilo.im/163bxd
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#SelectElement #Form #AnchorPositioning #ProgressiveEnhancement #Chrome #Browser #WebDev #Frontend #HTML #CSS
ilo.imThe customizable select - Part two: Potions, anchoring, and radial shenanigans in CSS | utilitybendThe second part customizable select with CSS series. Highlighting anchor positioning to create a radial potion select element with just HTML and CSS
Dubiose Chrome-Erweiterungen entdeckt
Ja, ich weiß. Über Googles gefährlich unsicheres Spionage-Werkzeug, das sich als Browser tarnt, wollte ich nicht mehr schreiben. Aber leider benutzen etliche andere Browser die FOSS Code-Basis von Chromium, und sind damit ebenfalls Googles Politik ausgeliefert. ...
https://www.pc-fluesterer.info/wordpress/2025/04/17/dubiose-chrome-erweiterungen-entdeckt/
www.pc-fluesterer.infoDubiose Chrome-Erweiterungen entdeckt | pc-flüsterer bremen
I struggle to read dark themed websites outdoors. Any browser addons or hacks to force a light theme - like the opposite of dark reader?
Following the system theme is even better.
#firefox #chrome #webbrowser #darktheme #android #darkreader
Following the system theme is even better.
#firefox #chrome #webbrowser #darktheme #android #darkreader
