Reminder to switch browsers if you haven't already!


  • Google Chrome is starting to phase out older, more capable ad blocking extensions in favor of the more limited Manifest V3 system.
  • The Manifest V3 system has been criticized by groups like the Electronic Frontier Foundation for restricting the capabilities of web extensions.
  • Google has made concessions to Manifest V3, but limitations on content filtering remain a source of skepticism and concern.
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[–] 92 points 2 years ago (2 children)
  • [–] 49 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    How long until the majority of the Internet is inaccessible to non-Chromium browsers because the pages "don't support them"?

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  • [–] 29 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    Honestly the way the internet is going do you need access to the majority of the internet? I feel like its pretty dead as it is now already.

    Lemmy will still work because we mostly use Firefox, and i bet the same will hold true for many others.

    Basically the moment mainstream internet becomes google only you will see nerds build new websites specifiably to cater to the non google crowd and i trust random internet nerds a hack of a lot more than a monopoly corporation.

    BRING IT ON GOOGLE!, YOU CAN INITIATE THE PUSH TO CREATE A NEW BETTER INTERNET. ^Create demand for freedom trough your suppressive enforments^

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  • [–] -2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Oh yeah nothing bad could ever happen from effectively removing an entire section of the population from certain parts of the Internet completely.

    I can't imagine that ever going badly.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    If it don't work on Firefox I won't use it. There are better FOSS options anyways

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Sure as long as it's not my bank or my employer or the gov official website for accessing my taxes...

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    "WebUSB is a JavaScript application programming interface specification for securely providing access to USB devices from web applications"

    Holy Hannah, NO!!!!

    Might as well allow a website to direct write to your hard drive unprompted again.

    Does noone see how BAD this stuff is?

    Stop creating attack vectors with glowing neon signs on them.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Web engines are nearly OSs at this point. It's aready possible to flash a phone ROM in two clicks with a webpage. Most apps are also already rendered in browser engines anyway, that includes things like steam. The APIs might sound evil until your favorite FOSS project uses them to make your life better.

    Unfortunately, if Mozilla refuses to implement stuff like PWAs or advanced APIs it's locked out of that side of innovation both good and bad.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    It's aready possible to flash a phone ROM in two clicks

    That's precisely the kind of access that a web browser should NEVER, EVER have.

    If you think 2 stage download keylogger apps getting into app stores is bad, wait until it can be done with a banner ad. Or by viewing a comment on a post.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago*

    You have to specifically permit it on a per site basis, it's not like a website has those permissions by default. If a banner ad or forum post could enable that permission then they'd be able to access your camera as well as a plethora of other permissions?

    I don't see any difference between downloading code to run in a web browser vs downloading and running ADB. In fact, running software in a web browser is more sandboxed and with more fine tuned permissions.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago

    I would close my bank account and such to a different bank. It takes literally 5 minutes to open one online.

    And yes, I would not work for a company that doesn't support Firefox

    I would also keep pestering support of the government website, that one I will have to give to you

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    I don't think that's going to be the case. People will find workarounds. The whole point of these alternative browsers is to use the web in whatever way the developers think their user base wants to use it. If the web is inaccessible to non-chromium browsers then people will spoof their browser to the site to look like a chromium browser.

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    If we get to the point where the corporatocracy can force us into a limited set of compliant browsers then the web as we know it has ended. I don’t think they’ll go that far unless they decide to go whole hog. That level of control will likely look to wipe out any useful plugins like ad-blockers or other privacy features. I didn’t want to go down the slippery slope argument, but that’s pretty much what will happen if they go that direction.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    But most of those only give you a few bits of data. Like if there's only one technique that succeeded, you might have the same fingerprint as everyone with your exact phone with the rest randomized

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    This is getting more common. Whatever dev accepted that when sizing the story should hang their head in shame. “No, you don’t size for a poor solution, you size for a good solution and let the PMs chip at the things they understand, keeping some things sacrosanct”.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    They do some now, but user agent switcher gets me to all of those with no problem.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    It is not that simple. These are cat and mouse games. Whack a mole. Whatever you'd like to say.

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    Laughs in long ago, the four nations lived together in harmony fox

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