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I want to suggest another thing you can do as a web developer. If you can afford it, block all Chrome users, and instruct users to download Firefox instead. Explain why your website is not available for Chrome.

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Maybe notify instead of block?

“You are using Chrome which tracks you without consent. Download a spyware-free browser here.” In red at the top of the page with links to brave and Firefox.

Good luck telling users apart from Chromium which is fine and Chrome which is a rip off and filled with shit

Last I checked Chromium wasn't very different from Chrome feature wise. Is there a reason to tell them apart?

I wonder if there are ways to detect some of the other spyware features in google chrome?

I’m genuinely hoping to do this on some of my web properties - if anyone has a hint on how, please let me know.

Isn't Brave just attempt to copy Google? It's Chromium based, with their own ad system ... why choose lesser evil?

Their own ad system which does not track users. An important difference.

This is also a good idea.

Better to show a unobtrusive banner on top, with a link to a well written article about how chrome is spyware. With a button to download firefox. We did that ages ago, but targeted to internet explorer, with good results.

yeah, like back in the old days!

I wish we all did it. However, I think we're often obsessed with delivering our products to the broadest possible audience.

As a Vivaldi user: please don't do this. Vivaldi removed any mentions of its name from the user agent a while ago because some websites intentionally broke themselves in it, so now it's indistinguishable from Chrome as far as web developers are concerned.

https://vivaldi.com/blog/user-agent-changes/

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