Google slings websites into Chrome's solitary confinement on Android to thwart Spectre-style data snooping Last year, Google deployed Site Isolation in desktop versions of its Chrome browser as a defense against CPU side-channel attacks like Spectre. The technique renders websites in separate processes to prevent one from interfering with or snooping on another, augmenting browser sandboxing defenses. On Thursday this week, the …
All that lovely user data is OURS! We are the only one who can monetise what the proles do with their shiny-shiny devices.
Everyone else can take a hike.
Still not going to use Chrome. Firefox ESR is good enough for me (plus a properly configured firewall that makes using pretty well anything from Google nigh on impossible to use)
It is so nice to see that Google cares about our security - to better snaffle up our private lives and monetize them.
Use a script blocker. It doesn't matter what browser you use if you have a script blocker, because 99.9% of malware on the Web comes in the form of JavaScript.
Block JavaScript and you are safe.
Unfortunately that is true. It should not be, but it is. Websites should never ever require JavaScript to work. I have seen more than one news site not display their content unless you enabled JavaScript. All those extraneous JavaScripts really slows down a browser, even with a powerful computer.
Oh, and we need to ban all autoplay video and audio except when I click on a clear link to a video or audio recording.
Oh, I love script blockers. But on top of that, I use Ghostery and EFF Privacy Bager. They contain a wealth of knowledge and actually play very well as a suite.
And, UTM parameter strippers are also very useful. It's just staggering to see how many web sites add UTM tracking parameters in their subservience to Google.
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