Technology

K, I'm still not using Google search engine anymore. And once I find a replacement for any other Google services and devices I have, it's out with those as well.

They're just starting it smaller scale. Within a year it'll be pushed out to everyone broadly.

I'd like to believe that enough of us actually stopped using chrome and switched to Firefox the day they made that announcement that swayed them... But in reality I'm sure it was just the bad press and they're going to try to find a different more sneaky way to do the same shit.

Bet they'll just rename it later, like what they did with FLoC to Ad Topics.

'Heard your feedback' is becoming the death flag of future fuckery these last few years

That usually means they will have something worse at a later time.

They had some of those changes already checked into their code base. It'll be interesting to see how much of that code comes back out.

The Advert People are easily startled, but they'll soon be back, and in greater numbers.

...yet.

This is your wake up to stop using Chrome and Chromium based browsers (e.g. Brave, Vivaldi, etc). Switch to Firefox if you haven't already.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/

Disgusting piece of craps! All should continue to open eyes, against google. They wont stop!

Spread the word to install firefox based browser, use different frontends to block youtube ads in browser, Invidious and use piped youtube apps on android to block youtbe ads: Newpipe

This should never be left up to Chrome. We need antitrust laws.

We'll see how this shakes out in a year.

Eternal vigilance is the price for a free web.

Moving it to WebView just makes it a Trojan horse for the rest of the web.

The "don't be evil" motto was replaced with "don't be evil, but greedy and posessive is okay"

I don't care what Chrome does to fuck every single users possible, provided that it doesn't affect FF.

This integrity thing was one of the worst thing they could've ever come up with that would've definitely affect me.

Fuck them. Fuck with your own users. I ain't one.

the web has been getting so shitty lately i've actually gotten into drawing and reading and vinyl and film, which i highly recommend as a backup plan; just the idea of this feels like the atomic bomb for the internet

"We've decided not to pursue Web Integrity API."

"Oh great! But what's that giant thing under the tarp behind you"

"Oh don't worry..."

Floc returned as something else, we will see this come back I am certain

One small victory to fend off the cancer that is current year google.

You did it everyone! Good job!

While this "battle" may be won for now, I've no doubt Google will simply try to implement this in a different way with less backlash.

Ah, let me guess, now Google's gonna get everyone and their sister to move all their content to apps...

Good! Now we just need to degoogle everything else on the internet.

Rriiiiiiiigghhhhtt.

I'll just be standing over here, watching them not do that.