What's your hot take on browsers, extensions, cookies, and anything else in this realm? Targeted ads don't really bother me, but some sources say those same 3rd party cookies could lead to security issues like malware - not sure on that one. Really, I'm looking for that happy medium of usability vs security and privacy. Google seems to be much more careful with their data they have on me vs Facebook. I find it useful to have my Chrome history - when I'm trying to remember a sweet Spiceworks article a week later etc. Burning all history every time you close a browser. I know that some of you are into Brave browser and killing all cookies that aren't needed. I'm also looking at extensions that aren't going to create more questions for me than they are worth. I'm considering that as well. Yes, 3rd party cookies are sorta creepy so I'm trying these extensions to see if they are worth pushing out to clients. These same docs also suggested privacy badger and https everywhere. I've rolled uBlock out at few sites, and I'm going to continue. I've reached a point where I'm like screw your ad revenue if it's going to be a security risk to my clients. So, I started digging and sure enough there are slick how to's on deploying uBlock via GPO to Chrome, Edge, and Firefox. In the past I'd give it out to customers as a suggestion as needed. It could have been 100% not the users fault. I've heard of the bad guys trying to insert malware into YouTube ads, so a simple sponsored search result could reasonably be bad guys buying ad space too. I couldn't find anything on her machine so I assume that Google let a bad ad slip by, and then quickly pulled it. As far as I could tell it was malvertising injected in what should have been a legit Google sponsored search result. Recently I had a customer click on a Home Depot sponsored ad and it was a popup fake virus warning. What's your take on alternate browsers (Brave or other) or cranking up browser security by killing cookies etc?
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