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> You might believe that the advertisers get less of your data if you use Firefox.

Shortly as Chrome implements Privacy Sandbox, both Chrome and Firefox will support the same levels of advertising tracking. For Chrome, this is a privacy upgrade of sorts, but for Firefox, this is a definite downgrade.

As Firefox converges on Chrome in this area, the privacy advantage evaporates.




Does Chrome do anything equivalent to Firefox's "Enhanced Tracking Protection"?

Chrome forces extensions to use "Manifest v3" rather than "v2", which cripples some ad-blockers; in particular, the full version of uBlock Origin will run on Firefox but not on Chrome. (I'm not sure of the details about the v2->v3 migration; maybe that isn't universally true yet. If not, it will be soon.)

"Reduces" and "evaporates" are not the same thing. I see the case for the former, not for the latter.




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