#ContraChrome

Electronic Frontiers AustraliaEFA@aus.social
2025-03-10

#ContraChrome web comic shows how #Google #Chrome is a two-way mirror designed to surveil the users who use it.

contrachrome.com/

Many of the same concepts apply to Edge and other browsers too.

Mozilla Firefox generally has a better track record for security and privacy, but it's not without its faults. Firefox has been in the news lately for its controversial new Terms of Service that it's applying to the browser. Mull Browser and LibreWolf advertise themselves as being Firefox with better defaults.

So, what are you going to do about it?

#privacy #infosec

Hacker Newsh4ckernews
2025-03-10

Contra Chrome: How Google's browser became a threat to privacy and democracy — contrachrome.com

Jan Korbel 🐧jackc@kompost.cz
2024-07-10

@DM_Ronin Maybe topic for next episode of #ContraChrome comics...
contrachrome.com

2024-06-19

de-chromarsi, de-googlizzarsi
un fumetto, importante assai, a proposito di Chrome: contrachrome.com/ContraChrome_
è di due anni fa, ma mi sembra parecchio attuale.

così come mi sembra importante degooglizzarsi, iniziando magari da questa pagina, che permette di continuare a fare ricerche attraverso google, sì,
differx.noblogs.org/2024/06/19
#Resistenza #SegnaliEAzioni #chrome #ContraChrome #degooglizzarsi #google #salvare #salvarsi

2024-02-26

Contra Chrome

Ein toller Comic zu Google Chrome vs. Privatsphäre, Demokratie.
Sehr lesenswert und gut teilbar!… ;-)

contrachrome.com/ContraChrome_

Letztlich geht es natürlich nicht nur um den Browser - und eigentlich auch nicht nur um Google, sondern um Plattform-Kapitalismus.

#google #datenschutz #ContraChrome #gafam

In einer Comiczeichnung spricht der Erzähler: „Wir erzählen unseren Webbrowsern Dinge, die wir nicht mal unseren besten Freunden erzählen würden.“ Im Hintergrund folgt eine weitere Person einem Pfad aus Einsen und Nullen, die er selber gerade zeichnet, und sagt: „Und haben gleichzeitig dieses vage Gefühl, überall im Netz Spuren zu hinterlassen.“
2024-01-01

@Quittenbrot Da kann auch dieser Webcomic dazu beitragen, diesen Vorsatz umzusetzen:

#ContraChrome von @leah
"Auf die Frage, worum es in Contra Chrome geht, meint Leah: „Es geht um dich. Sieben von zehn Leuten erreichen diese Website über #Google #Chrome, und das ist ein sehr anderer Weg als mit anderen Browsern wie etwa #Firefox .“

In Contra Chrome untersucht sie diesen Weg auf unterhaltsame und leicht verständliche Weise. Der dokumentarische Webcomic zeichnet nach, wie Googles Browser im Laufe des letzten Jahrzehnts zu einer Gefahr für #Datenschutz und demokratische Prozesse werden konnte.

Akribisch arrangiert Leah Bilder des US-amerikanischen Comiczeichners Scott McCloud um, der 2008 einen vom Google-Konzern in Auftrag gegebenen Chrome- #Comic veröffentlichte, und stellt dem Original ein „überfälliges Update“ an die Seite. Schicht für Schicht legt sie die inneren Mechanismen des umstrittenen Browsers offen und liefert so das ultimative Handbuch zu einem der meistgenutzen Überwachungs-Tools der Welt:

Google Chrome, mit dem bunten Wirbel-Icon – das sich ausschließlich um dich dreht."
@marv99

Ausschnitt aus dem Comic: "Große Teile Deines Lebens werden abgeerntet wie tief hängende Früchte. Die zwar in getrennten Datenkanälen gesammelt ... letztlich aber alle an ein kommerzieller Unternehmen geschickt werden."
Leah Elliottleah@mastodon.art
2023-12-21

🎄 Christmas has come early here at Contra Chrome Central!

🎁 @gualdo sent me actual printed versions he published for an Italian workshop on #SurveillanceCapitalism – thank you so much!

❄️ Please do share my comic #ContraChrome with your loved ones over the holidays. 2024 will be the year #Chrome disables ad-blockers like #uBlockOrigin – a good reason for switching to less invasive browsers like #Firefox.

Read online or download for free in seven languages:

👉 contrachrome.com/

Four copies of a printed brochure, arranged like a fan on top of each other.
The cover is white and blue, the title "Contra Chrome" easily readable. Arranged like the shapes of the Chrome browser's logo, four panels show  a browser's search bar, various icons, creepily crawling websites and in the middle a cheerily smiling man wearing glasses.A look inside the comic, showing pages 10 and 11 of my webcomic "Contra Chrome". In one of the more visual sequences, the Chrome browser's logo is compared to a photographic lens taking a picture of your personality - "expressionless and ever-watching."
gualdo :privacypride: :cc:gualdo@mastodon.uno
2023-11-27

#Tuta (già #tutanota),
# il provider di #email criptate, pubblica la sua opinione sui #browser rispettosi della #privacy

Ovviamente non sono gli unici a parlare dell'argomento, ma l'articolo presenta informazioni approfondite ed è sempre interessante leggere queste cose

L'articolo si trova qui: tuta.com/blog/best-private-bro

#contrachrome #chrome #gafam

gualdo :privacypride: :cc:gualdo@mastodon.uno
2023-11-22

#Firefox desktop has various extensions to enhance its #privacy or customize the user experience.

Well, in December 200 new extensions will be available for Firefox #Android.

Great news for a definitive farewell to #Chrome without any regrets... ❤️ 🙂

The news can be found here: blog.mozilla.org/addons/2023/1

#Google #Gafam #CyberSecurityAwareness
#ContraChrome

gualdo :privacypride: :cc:gualdo@mastodon.uno
2023-11-22

#Firefox desktop ha molte estensioni per aumentarne la #privacy o per personalizzarne l'esperienza d'uso

Ma a dicembre arrivano 200 nuove estensioni per Firefox #Android

Ottime notizie per dire definitivamente addio a #Chrome senza rimpianti... ❤️ 🙂

La notizia si trova qui: blog.mozilla.org/addons/2023/1

#Google #Gafam #CyberSecurityAwareness
#ContraChrome

caos (moved to Sharkey) 🚀caos@metalhead.club
2023-11-17

:flan_hacker: #ContraChrome -
regelmäßige Empfehlung (aus aktuellem Anlass):
contrachrome.com/comic/279/
regular recommendation (based on current events): contrachrome.com/
von/by @leah

"In #webcomic form, she documents how over the last decade, Google’s browser has become a threat to user privacy and the democratic process itself. (...) #Google #Chrome, which – by design – is all about you."

#Datenschutz #Privacy #Browser

Auschnitt aus dem Kapitel "Schattentext" ... "Durch den Schattentext wird das, was früher als nutzloser 'Daten-Überschuss' gegolten hätte ... nun systematisch verknüpft und wird so zu einem höchst informativem und profitablen digitalen Zwilling"
:fedora: filippodb ⁂ :cc:filippodb@mastodon.uno
2023-09-23

Oggi parteciperò al secondo #PrivacyPride a MIlano, i dettagli dell'evento sono su mobilizon:

mobilizon.it/events/e24c0a4a-b

la manifestazione contro #ChatControl è stata presentata molto bene da Wired Italia qui:

wired.it/article/chatcontrol-e

mentre le problematiche sulla legge di Sorveglianza Globale sono di @brunosaetta sul sito di @valigiablu qui:

valigiablu.it/chat-control-2-u

Quest'anno farò un breve discorso contro ChatControl con @amreo e potrete avere una copia del fumetto #ContraChrome da @gualdo 👍

2023-09-10

@lobsters it was a user-tracking ad platform even before "topics". It's not like chrome didn't scrape all user data it could get before too. This only allows to do that more effectively. The fact that chrome already steals users' data shouldn't be news to anyone.

contrachrome.com

#chrome #google #ContraChrome #privacy #ads

Leah Elliottleah@mastodon.art
2023-09-08

A short talk about #Chrome's Privacy Sandbox – implemented this week! – by one of the galaxy's leading #privacy experts. 🦑🛸

🚨 This is the weekend to share my comic #ContraChrome with your friends and loved ones, and help them make the jump to #Firefox.

👉 contrachrome.com

ℹ️ arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/0

#PrivacySandbox #Google #SurveillanceCapitalism #comic #comics

A page with six panels, held in black, white, and light blue.

A narrator steps to the fore from behind a curtain, and says the following:

"As a final note, we have a short talk by one of the galaxy's leading privacy experts.

The topic: Google's promis to do away with tracking altogether and to place privacy at the core of Chrome with its new Privacy Sandbox, coming in 2024."

The narrrator looks behind the curtain, saying to someone off panel: 
"What? Still writing his speech...?"

Then he continues to the readers: 
"Well, maybe I can just take a moment and fill you in on Google's plans to finally block all those spying, snooping third-party cookies for good.
"No more of those annyoing, obnoxious cookie banners when accessing a web site!"Six more panels on this second page.
The text continues:
"Instead, Chrome itself will analyze all your browsing habits and – depending on your surfing profile of the past days – put you in a so-called "cohort" with others who have been to similar sites."

The picture shows three circles of different shades of blue, filled icons of users, all looking the same.

"According to Google, this way your privacy will be protected much better than before. According to practically everyone else, among them many internet experts, you will be monitored even more precisely and relentlessly than before."

Here the picture shows the circles overlying one another like Venn diagrams. Wherever two overlap, the anonymous user icons look more unique, wearing hats or individual haircuts. In the middle, where all three overlap, a very individual looking face looks very distressed, shocked about being surveilled.

The text continues:
"Another outcry ensued, an another round of Google backpedaling, a tiny bit, for now."

"But, as Rena Tangens, member of German privacy NGO DigitalCourage, recently remarked: "Piranhas will become vegans before Google foregoes 99 percent of its profits." – Trackers gonna track".

The images here show a piranha that very much looks like the Google Chrome logo, staring at a Vegan Flower, the petals made of the Venn Diagrams of Chrome users. The fish then jumps at the flower, showing its sharp teeth.

(Continued on next picture's Alt text...)(continued from last picture's Alt text:)

The text goes on to say:
"This is much more about Google blocking its data-harvesting competitors in order to amass even more market power in its own hands."

Here we see the Chrome piranha as a big fish among many little ones, looking like it has eaten a lot lately, making a burping sound.

The narrator is shown again, saying:
"By the way, most other browsers have been blocking third-party cookies for a long time now *without* replacing this surveillance technology with another one. And yet, it will become a global standard the moment it is rolled out with Chrome".
(Note from the editor: That is now!)

Last page, six panels.
The narrator looks behind the curtain, gets a signal that the expert is ready, says "Admiral, the stage is yours, and out comes Admiral Ackbar from Star Wars, in a suit, saying loudly: "IT'S  A TRAP!" (End of his talk)

The narrator adds "Couldn't have said it better myself!"  and concludes: "And that's it for today. Be safe out there!"
gualdo :privacypride: :cc:gualdo@mastodon.uno
2023-09-05

#Google #Chrome ha appena compiuto 15 anni

In questo periodo è diventato il #web #browser dominante dapprima a spese di #Explorer e poi di #Firefox

Oltre a questo, ben noto, i dati mostrano che, a parte #Edge che continua una sua lenta crescita, gli altri browser sono sostanzialmente su posizioni stabili dal 2020, segno probabile dell'affermazione delle #app

Qomunque non c'è compleanno senza regalo, e quindi ecco il nostro: contrachrome.com/comic/806/

#contrachrome

caos (moved to Sharkey) 🚀caos@metalhead.club
2023-08-29

@buwel hier noch viele weitere Gründe #ContraChrome
contrachrome.com/
"In webcomic form, she @leah documents how over the last decade, #Google’s browser has become a threat to user #privacy and the democratic process itself."
#Chrome

gualdo :privacypride: :cc:gualdo@mastodon.uno
2023-08-23

Non una news, ma magari interessante per i nuovi amici di #mastodon

#ContraChrome è un fumetto liberamente scaricabile che racconta come #Chrome e #Google siano attori primi del capitalismo della #sorveglianza

È un fumetto divertente ma fa pensare e informa in modo approfondito

L’abbiamo tradotto in italiano e si trova qui: contrachrome.com/comic/806/

La versione cartacea viene regalata a depredati.eu

#gafam #privacy #rights

Gente, stamattina in ufficio:
- Edge, morto 💀
- Chrome, morto 💀
- Firefox, funzionante ma non consente ricerche con Google 🤕

...
Stiamo usando TUTTI Firefox con DuckDuckGo (e scusate se godo un po')
🦊🦆🦊🦆🦊🦆🦊🦆

#tech #privacy #web #contrachrome

gualdo :privacypride: :cc:gualdo@mastodon.uno
2023-05-29

@eticadigitale

Il 6 e il 13 giugno, a Milano, con @quinta e il sottoscritto,
nasce #depreDATI, laboratorio di autodifesa dalla sorveglianza digitale

Parliamo di società della sorveglianza e soprattutto delle tecniche per difenderci (e regaliamo la stampa del fumetto #ContraChrome)

Le info sono qui:
- depredati.eu
- copernicani.it/depredati-labor

Ci dareste una mano a diffondere la notizia?

Grazie!

gualdo :privacypride: :cc:gualdo@mastodon.uno
2023-05-29

Nasce #depreDATI, laboratorio di autodifesa dalla sorveglianza digitale

Inizia il 6 e il 13 giugno a Milano con @quinta e il sottoscritto

Parliamo di società della sorveglianza e soprattutto di come possiamo difenderci, con tecniche concrete spiegate con le "mani in pasta" (e regaliamo la stampa del fumetto #ContraChrome)

Vi aspettiamo!

Per capire bene di cosa si trattta, info e prenotazione sono qui:
- depredati.eu

#surveillancecapitalism #GAFAM

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