$5 billion Google lawsuit over ‘Incognito mode’ tracking moves a step closer to trial / Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers denied Google’s push for a summary judgment in a lawsuit over the way it tracked internet activity even after users switched to ‘Incognito mode.’
^ If you follow the site below, you would have seen this coming for a while:
https://privacytests.org/
...which is one reason why my preferred browser has been LibreWolf for a while now.
@voltronic Oooh, I'll have to look into this. I've been using Focus.
@voltronic I’m a Brave fan, but am going to give LibreWolf a spin now as well…
@kay_dub
I dropped Brave years ago after the implemented the crypto coin ad viewing rewards thing. It's opt-in but still rubs me the wrong way.
If you would rather stay in the chromium ecosystem, you could try Ungoogled Chromium but it doesn't test well for fingerprinting and tracking resistance. LibreWolf and Mullvad (both Firefox forks) seem like your best bet in that regard.
@voltronic Yeah, I hated the coin crap, shut it all off, but also bugs me they still push it.
I prefer the Firefox base, and use it as my alternate browser with a bunch of privacy plugins. It doesn't do well at fingerprinting/tracking either.
I have a feature I like that appears to be a no-go with LibreFox and Brave, turning on Dark mode in tandem with Gnome. After switching to Ubuntu as my daily driver, I love being able to switch most apps with one control. There's always some tradeoff...
@kay_dub
I don't know if you have something like this set up already but don't forget you can lock a whole lot of nasty crap before it even gets to you with network wide DNS filters. Check my pinned posts for a pi-hole guide. A lot of people like NextDNS also.
@voltronic Found out Dark Reader (which I first tried before CoSo got its own dark mode) works fine in LibreWolf, and ties to system-wide setting. Problem solved!
Now giving it a spin as my primary browser. Thanks for the pointer!
@voltronic Im using a hardened firefox. Libre wolf didn't work well for me, but in general I am holding tightly to my gecko browser. With most of the world on Chromium, its incumbent that be preserved in the face of shenanigans like this.
@NiveusLepus
What hardened Firefox fork are you using? Or did you manually edit the config like I know a lot of people do?
^ I use Cromite on Android, a hardened fork of Chrome (in the same way LibreWolf is a hardened fork of FireFox).
https://github.com/uazo/cromite