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seaQueue ,
@seaQueue@lemmy.world avatar

And a hearty Rest In Piss to Chrome as well

drdalek ,

Never a better a time to join Mozilla Gang.

-Message brought to you by Mozilla Gang

ronalicious ,

I only use chrome for things that require my Google account.

cupcakezealot ,
@cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

use google container for firefox :)

cheeseburger ,
@cheeseburger@lemmy.ca avatar

Neat!

jay ,
@jay@mbin.zerojay.com avatar

The one and only thing keeping me on Chrome... well, Ungoogled Chromium... is the webassembly performance which is just abysmal in comparison on Firefox, sadly.

roofuskit ,

Good thing I ditched Chrome the moment I heard about their plans.

tinfoilhat ,

I’ll just side load it. Fuck you Google

chalupapocalypse ,

Will a pihole fill this void?

adarza ,

i’ve got a few using the mv3 ‘lite’ version of ubo here. seems to be sufficient–for now.

iturnedintoanewt ,
@iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee avatar

Not at the same level. Ublock can remove way more granular spam and ads than pihole, which is limited at DNS requests. I use both… Running Firefox of course.

KillingTimeItself ,

its also available on firefox, de manifested version of chromium are likely to crop up, idk. Depends on how cancer it is to rip that shit out.

TheOneCurly ,

Re-manifested? To fix it you have to reenable manifest v2. That should be simple for a while but will get more problematic over time.

KillingTimeItself ,

de v3 versions, obviously. Mozilla has no intentions of implementing it, and if chrome kills v2, it’s not impossible that mozilla can hit them with an anti trust case and win, considering this is arguably what that would be.

But it will probably start to break on individual shitty websites over time, as per usual unfortunately.

Wiz ,

Switching to Firefox might!

chalupapocalypse ,

I’m already on Firefox, I just meant in general

JovialSodium , (edited )

To an extent. But it wouldn’t surprise me at all if sometime in the near future they force the use their own DNS servers within their browser instead of respecting your network configuration.

The best solution to circumventing Chrome’s bad behavior is to not use it.

Edit: speiling

dumbass ,
@dumbass@leminal.space avatar

Man you gotta edit this again, you miss spelled spelling.

MutilationWave ,

You misspelled misspelled.

dumbass ,
@dumbass@leminal.space avatar

I’m just living up to my username!

Lightsong ,

I use Firefox but when I watch twitch or wherever, I need Google chrome’s live caption to see what streamers say.

Firefox please get this feature asap. So I can delete Google chrome for good.

scrion ,

No idea where you’d like to use live captions, but n maybe this helps:

github.com/abb128/LiveCaptions

BassTurd ,

I use chromium for one thing, and it’s casting live sports to my Chromecast. My plans to implement a HTPC have just been expedited.

TheTimeKnife ,
@TheTimeKnife@lemmy.world avatar

Google needs to be broken up by government.

ArugulaZ ,

It saddens me to agree with this. Who knew Google would become as oppressive as fucking MICROSOFT?

tahoe , (edited )

« Don’t be evil »

😬😬😬😬

Zacryon ,
@Zacryon@feddit.org avatar

They ditched that in 2018. It was long overdue. At least somewhat honest about themselves.

Grandwolf319 ,

Most smart people who understood capitalism did.

NekkoDroid ,
@NekkoDroid@programming.dev avatar

It really wouldn’t change anything in the long run. Any company that creates a browser is gonna need some form of income and people aren’t willing to pay for a browser. What would be their incentive to continue to work on the browser when they aren’t being paid?

humorlessrepost ,

Same as Firefox. Let search engines (including google) pay them a fair market rate to make them the default browser.

voluble ,

I hear the term ‘broken up’ a lot in media and discourse, but it’s never explained. In your eyes, what actually happens when a government ‘breaks up’ a corporation? I mean, what are the steps, objectives, and outcomes?

Not being adversarial, I’m just curious.

boatswain ,

Not the person you’re asking, but my general understanding is that different products would be required to be their own companies, so advertising, Android, and Chrome would all be separate businesses.

Verat ,

I envision it like AT&T’s break-up, where the singular Google is broken up into regional companies that will (hopefully) have to compete with each other.

peopleproblems ,

Now what would be impressive is if they ban uBlock origin from working on firefox mobile. That would be a whole new kind of sinister

cupcakezealot ,
@cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

meanwhile firefox lists it as recommended and also lets you use it on firefox mobile.

LostXOR ,

Almost as if a browser company that's not also an advertising company has no reason to fight ad blockers.

hollyberries ,

I’ve got some bad news for you. Mozilla bought an ad company.

DragonTypeWyvern ,

And my nerd bros try to get me to donate

endofline ,

You can always fork firefox. People used to use website not requiring javascript at all and it worked well. Some people still use even w3m f.e. when graphics card driver goes bad after update and they need to watch some docs on the internet. Most current browser have most features you would ever need

SpaceCadet ,
@SpaceCadet@feddit.nl avatar

You can always fork firefox

You could fork Chromium too.

hollyberries ,

Forking is indeed the way forward when Mozilla loses its way a little more. For myself, I switched to Librewolf about 6 months ago, along with replacing Thunderbird with Betterbird after using it since the Phoenix days.

I cannot remember what prompted the move to Librewolf, it may have been the AI stuff they were pushing at the time, or possibly the update that forced the tabs into my titlebar without having to go into about:config to fix it. Or the fact that Firefox was constantly pushing me to sign up for an account. There were quite a few gripes that added up over time lol

Betterbird restored some removed things I liked pre-supernova as well as a native systray icon under Linux and that was enough motivation to make the switch.

It is time for a new browser to enter the market. Either Ladybird or something built with Servo seems likely.

cupcakezealot , (edited )
@cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

i mean they bought a privacy preserving ad company to offer an alternative for companies to google, which is what they should be doing.

because like it or not people depend on ads for their sites.

NostraDavid ,
@NostraDavid@programming.dev avatar

Wait until people find out you can make the government ban ads - euronews.com/…/grenoble-europe-s-first-ad-free-ci…

I like their future (so far).

Railcar8095 ,

Ban billboards. Very different. And are there ones owned by the city.

Honestly, not a huge win.

danafest ,

Banning billboards is actually pretty huge. I live in Maine where billboards are banned and the mental break from being constantly forcibly advertised to is so nice. Every time I travel anywhere else I realize what a huge difference it makes.

x00z ,
@x00z@lemmy.world avatar

Sadly that news isn’t how it is right now. Picking a random spot in Grenoble using Google maps and searching for the first tram station, I find 6+ billboards.

Blackmist ,

It has made mobile browsing usable again for me.

jo3shmoo ,

Same. Firefox Mobile had been a laggy mess when I used it a few years ago, but a combination of some really aggressive advertising and the announcement of manifest v3 caused me to give it another shot about a year ago. It’s a dramatic improvement in phone browsing.

ArugulaZ ,

Gee, what a shame. Good think I switched to FireFox. Hey, does anyone know how to make chat work on FireFox?

spiderman ,

chat?

superkret ,

Is “chat work” something like sex work but clothed?

praise_idleness ,

80% of the websites saying we only support Chromium can be used without any problem by chaning Useragent header

Matth78 ,

About that you can check this new extension : https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/chrome-mask/

Yet I feel it’s better to avoid using it and report web compatibility problems. Always masking user agent could led to believe only supporting chrome is sufficient.

unrelatedkeg ,

it’s better to avoid using it and report web compatibility problems

It would be if sites were truly incompatible, but developers know Chrome/Chromium dominates the market and instead of bothering checking compatibility with firefox, they just preemptively block Firefox since that’s an easier “fix”.

That’s assuming the vendor isn’t Google and doesn’t have a vested interest in Chrome hegemony.

Still. Finding a site that doesn’t work and reporting it absolutely is the way to go.

NauticalNoodle ,

Some of us never left Firefox.

archchan ,

Google sneezes and your future is stolen by an ad that’s selling it back to you. Google is too big to exist.

Etterra ,

Lol like anyone smart still used Google.

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