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Here's what's happening to ad blockers in Google Chrome (www.spacebar.news)

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[-] [email protected] 91 points 2 years ago

People are fighting ads and switching browsers.

[-] [email protected] 33 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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[-] [email protected] 111 points 2 years ago

Switching to what? Firefox. I don’t see the problem here. Install Firefox and forget those monopolistic enshitifying fucks.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

But switch to what?

[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

I went from Netscape to Mozzila and from Mozilla to Firefox and, guess what... my browser never fucked me up in the name of maximizing corporate profits.

Google was already a wholly untrustworth Ad Company With A Tech Arm back when they invented Chrome, and shit like this was already back then a question of WHEN, not IF.

[-] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago

My recommendation is librefox and if you really want a chrome based alternative I'd suggest Thorium (although I don't know what thorium will do when this is implemented I'm hoping they don't follow it.)

[-] [email protected] 35 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

For anyone interested, as of November 2023:

Web browsers using Gecko (Firefox's engine): GNU IceCat, Waterfox, K-Meleon, Lunascape, Portable Firefox, Conkeror, Classilla, TenFourFox. Edit: and Fennec

Web browsers using the Goanna engine (which is a fork of Gecko): Pale Moon, Basilisk.

Flow is a web browser with its own proprietary browser engine.

The other active engines listed are: WebKit (Apple's engine), and Blink (Google's engine, which they forked off of WebKit, and which is used for Chrome, Chromium, and countless other browsers).

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

I'd no idea there's a browser called Conkeror. That's prertty funny since WebKit was based off of KHTML used in KDE's Konqueror browser.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Fennec is also using Gecko.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

I use firefox, but Id never head of these alternatives.

Anyone who does have reviews? Pros, cons, reasons to use them beside variety?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Pale Moon still supports the even older extension model. I used it briefly until my extensions got updated to the newer format. I still kinda miss the old theme engine.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I thought it was pronounced Kay Melly-on, so I never tried it because of the silly name.

Pihole will be unaffected.

this post was submitted on 23 Nov 2023

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