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Thanks for mentioning uBlock Origin, Robert. AdBlock was working great till
recently, so I'll see if this helps!
Kathleen
On Fri, Dec 2, 2016 at 12:54 PM, Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com>
wrote:
> How is it news that Google uses algorithms to tailor ads?
>
>https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/
>
> I've been using Firefox for years, and it's my default browser on both
> Mac and Windows, but I fairly regularly have to use Chrome and
> occasionally IE for specific sites and web applications. I don't see
> many ads because I use uBlock Origin. (AdBlock started selling
> pass-throughs to advertisers so it's useless.)
>
> On Android my default browser is Ghostery, but same story, sometimes I
> have to use Chrome.
>
> iOS itself is a data-mining machine so I'm not sure it matters which
> browser you use.
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