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A list of recent hostile moves by #Google's #Chrome team (Jeff Fortin T. (@[email protected])) (mastodon.social)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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A list of recent hostile moves by #Google's #Chrome team;

handy for sharing with your entourage, to explain why they should stop using #Chromium / #GoogleChrome and use #Firefox or #Epiphany as their main #web #browser :

The "Manifest v3" sabotage of content blocking extensions: https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/10/23131029/mozilla-ad-blocking-firefox-google-chrome-privacy-manifest-v3-web-request
The attempted sabotage of #JPEGXL: https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/chrome-banishes-jpeg-xl-photo-format-that-could-save-phone-space/
#WebEnvironmentIntegrity a.k.a. #DRM for whole websites would hurt the web, #opensource browsers and OSes:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/07/googles-web-integrity-api-sounds-like-drm-for-the-web/

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I switched when I got tired of not having ad blockers on mobile. Best decision ever. The Internet can be unusable without it.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I never used Chrome. happy user of Firefox since it's conception.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I do most browsing on Firefox, but there are some web developers who seem to totally ignore anything but Chrome. Like I sometimes think a site is broken until I try it in Chrome. Anyone else have this issue and have a solution other than using Chrome?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Either spoof the user agent, or... Edge.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I have the same problem, and every Firefox user who claims otherwise it’s just lying. I use brave browser for these instances.