Take it you didn't click "learn more"?
To sign into YouTube, you need to sign into Google.Com. that's the cross site script. Nothing scary, or unexpected.
this post was submitted on 11 Aug 2024
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What's with the influx of anti Firefox posts here? Really weird. Especially since yes everything is in their learn more stuff.
It is a bit odd that there’s an influx of anti Firefox and AMD stuff after Google and Intel were in the news for major things.
Yeah feels a bit intentional
People have been up in arms for every new "flavor of the month" browser that boasts better security, or some new privacy thing, and Firefox not offering it. Also, the freakout about Mozilla enabling "ad-tracking" was wildly misunderstood and overblown by the privacy nuts, but started a slew of these "WELLFFDIDTHISTHINGBLETRRGGHWAAAHHHHHHH"
It's all overblown in my opinion.
"flavor of the month" browser
"flavor of the month" ~browser~ Chromium
Well I would have just said Chromium then, but that's not what I said.
I think they meant that they are chromium based.
If you've lost your entire user base except the privacy nuts, you should be very careful about your messaging because they're your only demographic left.
It's not clear who you are referring to. Privacy nuts seem to hate every browser that exists at the moment. I even see people pissed an Librewolf for one thing or another.
Fact of the matter is that the browser is less the problem, and the contents they consume are, yet people are unwilling to just stop interacting with the sites that cause their concerns. There's no way to win with everyone.
But that's one of the most dangerous trackers afaik. There should at least be an option to disable it.
the moment I saw login im like um yeah I bet same with microsoft or any other login that is across. wait for it. sites. login to outlook.com and then go to 0365
If they wouldn't allow this, signing into YouTube wouldn't work
Don't log into their services.
Don't visit the websites.
If you access Google sites only in a special Firefox container, that still isolates your Google cookies from the rest of your tabs? Or does it just add a “you don’t get this from me” flag when it gives Google your user cookie, so it can pretend to not recognise you as it adds your web-browsing history to your ad-targeting profile (flagged appropriately as to keep it deniable, of course)?
So google is a privacy nightmare. Google pays firefox. There’s not a lot more dots to connect here. How is anyone surprised at things like this?
I don't know why you're getting downvotes.
All of the incentives line up. That's why you always examine incentives.
Not sure. It’s unverified speculation. People are weirdly attached to software these days. My answer to problems like these is to find something else. Tor seems decent.