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The latter is more valuable to the ad tech industry. In fact, they benefit from browsers with crippled bookmarking systems. Every time a user types in "facebook" instead of facebook.com into the omnibar, that user is directed to a Google/Bing/Brave Search page with ads.

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I can't live with Braves terrible bookmark manager, and inability to save history for more than a few months. But I can't live without the flawless ad blocking.

Same. I can't live without ad blocking + ublock. I don't remember the last time I saw an ad and I'm happy for that.

Yet here you are, alive and commenting on HN.

For now. But were it not for my comment history, there'd be no trace of my reading this thread in X months.

Most of that is alleviated by autocomplete with browser history.

Data that is shared with Google/Bing/etc. It worries me that the omnibar is enabled by default and records what people search for, let alone employees of major companies, governments, and institutions.

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