Our new enemy: Google Topics (exFLoC)

[guigirl]

@stilgarwolf Yeah, i saw that several hours ago, & i gotta say, i was not at all pleased that my guess seems to have been right ... this is a clear case when being wrong would have been better.

[Catweazle]

My opinion on Google is very clear and it is not surprising at all that they try any petty trick to get to profile and track the user. It's not even worth the effort of raising my middle finger for this, in any case I don't have enough middle fingers to express what I think. Well, more work for our team.

[TbGbe]

@stilgarwolf Saw that but - it also ONLY mentions Chrome not chromium.

I would have expected the chromium blog to say chromium if that is what they meant!?

[npro]

@tbgbe They don't want people to know that there can be a browser with that name available, so it's Chrome. I'm sure they hate that Chromium exists in the first place, they keep it to pretend it's "open-source", where others can have a word <- we laugh here.

[stilgarwolf]

@tbgbe Chrome is just Chromium plus all "don't be evil" code google keeps closed.
Any changes to the API had to be made to the core, aka Chromium, too keep the engine consistent.

[DoctorG]

Gogl calls that new bad thing FLEDGE.
https://digiday.com/media/wtf-is-fledge/

And i thought Fledge means: growing up a bird and it can fly.
Bad, using such word to green wash the tracking and ad pollutioning internet.

[TbGbe]

@npro @stilgarwolf
So, you're saying Chromium is just the Snapshot version of Chrome

I get it now

[Catweazle]

@tbgbe , no, Chrome is a Chromium+Googles "ImprovetheuserspyingexperienceAPIs"

[TbGbe]

@catweazle But these "Topics" are

Googles "ImprovetheuserspyingexperienceAPIs"

checking today's calendar.

[Catweazle]

@tbgbe , yes April first, but I'm not shure if this is a joke. G has us too badly accustomed and we already know that FloC and idleAPIs are not going to be the first or the last tricks that they try to get our data.

[guigirl]

@tbgbe said in Our new enemy: Google Topics (exFLoC):

Chromium is just the Snapshot version of Chrome

Exactly! It also lost its search engines, & currently refuses to check for new Feeds.

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Btw, wtf happened to my thread? Why was this merge done? When i created my new topic [heehee] dedicated to Topics, i deliberately did NOT instead just use this existing thread, coz FLoC is NOT Topics. Forcing them together on the basis that the latter is the new replacement for the former, would be analogous to us ceasing all posts in the V forum & reverting to the Opera forum. Humpfh!

[Stardust]

@guigirl said in Our new enemy: Google Topics (exFLoC):

Btw, wtf happened to my thread? Why was this merge done?

Because mine has a better name

[guigirl]

@stardust Oh, so we're gonna be like that, are we? Well then, in the spirit of my former proper thread...

[TbGbe]

Hey there!
Stay on "Topic"

[npro]

@tbgbe said in Our new enemy: Google Topics (exFLoC):

@npro @stilgarwolf
So, you're saying Chromium is just the Snapshot version of Chrome

I get it now

Basically, Chromium is where Google builds their toilets without lid (APIs), with the other end being our faces, then with Canary they start dropping the crap inside.