If you use anything Google, you are the product. This has been pretty obvious since the early 2000's, yet people dive right into all the crap they release.

Google's core business is selling ads. So anything that aligns with selling ads is the path they'll take. Their users are the product.

With the direction FF is taking it's gonna be forks for now.

The only thing that held me back from using LibreWolf over Firefox was that it disabled (automatic) dark mode on websites. I understand this is part of the "resist fingerprinting" configuration. There's a workaround now ( https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1732114).

In about:config update these 3 preferences:

• privacy.resistFingerprinting = false
• privacy.fingerprintingProtection = true
• privacy.fingerprintingProtection.overrides = +AllTargets,-CSSPrefersColorScheme

Google exists for selling ads. All their tech exists to support them doing just that. You're the product.

Are you seriously that dumb that you're comparing selling ads in a store (the App Store) with selling ads on every other inch of the internet?

There is quite some difference between selling ad-space in a store and having ads as your one and only business model. You wouldn't know of course and that's why you are a Google fanboy.

You're too smart for this site. I too love taking trains across both the Pacific and Atlantic oceans!

Are they selling snap beans?

MS 2 decades late to Google's ad game.

Gotta keep that rage up.

Thanks for the info, now I can confidently carrion.

Or anything Google for that matter. I see a lot of praise on Lemmy for their Pixel phones, but it wouldn't surprise me if they eventually find there was a backdoor in their firmware all this time. Yes of course, I can not prove that right now, but this news about Google Chrome isn't news for no reason. Don't trust anything Google if you care about privacy, it is literally their business model (selling targeted ads).