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aard ,
@aard@kyu.de avatar

They probably couldn’t get google drive to work without 3rd party cookies.

archonet ,

This is your daily reminder that Firefox and its derivatives exist and should be used wherever possible if you care about Google not having a monopoly over the internet. There’s even a Firefox-based version of Discord called Datcord.

takeda ,

Absolutely. If you think you can switch when chrome will be completely hostile it will be too late.

The reason they are trying those things in chrome is because the market share of Firefox is currently low. They are counting that you won’t have the option to run Firefox anymore, because sites will stop supporting it. Don’t let that happen.

breakingcups ,

Also, Firefox is in a tough situation where they have to purposefully shoot themselves in the foot, because their builtin tracking protection means Firefox usually doesn’t show up in a lot of browser usage stats.

takeda ,

I didn’t think about it, though if that makes it harder to track it (can’t they just check the user agent?) could that actually be good, as the sites will never know exactly how many users they will lose, so might be more hesitant to pull the trigger?

dxc ,
@dxc@sh.itjust.works avatar

Thanks I didn’t know about Datcord

tabular ,
@tabular@lemmy.world avatar

Note: “I don’t use Discord/Datcord anymore because of their terrible TOS which Datcord can’t protect you from.”

kenkenken ,
@kenkenken@sh.itjust.works avatar

I doubt Firefox will deprecate third-party cookies is Chrome won’t. And now Firefox has included literally ad tracking component into the browser and enabled it for all users by default.

corbin ,

Google worked on Privacy Sandbox/Topics API/FLoC for at least five years, and it couldn’t get something that advertisers, regulators, and users could all agree on, so it’s just falling back to the thing that worked (but has next to zero privacy protections). Sigh.

NaibofTabr ,

Yeah, this is a loss for user privacy.

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