Remember people: Most alternative browsers are chormium under the hood! Not Firefox though :)

While the incoming end of support for manifest v2 is definitely a reason to switch, Google Web Integrity project is way much more concerning.

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

Not regretting my leap from Reddit to Lemmy at start of July. Firefox is my homeboy, been using it for decades.

As soon as they made the news about this I jumped ship. Switched to Firefox on everything, and FF on my phone has been better than expected. Having mobile extensions is phenomenal, especially since I like to listen to YouTube videos while at work, and can keep my phone locked or be in another app while it plays in the background now without paying for premium.

Oh and uBlock my beloved on mobile 🧡

Yep, just made the switch yesterday

Switched over to firefox a couple of days ago. The switch was actually very easy because I self-host as much as possible including bookmarks and passwords. Hardest part was finding a new speed dial extension that I liked.

I installed Firefox on all of my devices a couple of days ago when the new update of Chrome told me about some kind of browser based tracking for ads with the new update, I wish I'd taken a screenshot. I knew I was going to switch back to Firefox anyway with the web DRM they were planning on doing, but the new update pushed me to start changing over now.

If only Firefox could easily migrate my 97+ open tabs on chrome mobile...

Meanwhile at Google... Problem: People are flocking away from Chrome Solution: Implement webpage DRM

We need to go back to NCSA Mosaic.

It isn't. It's planning to make ad blockers use a crippled API like the one Safari has had for years now, but the timeline for that still hasn't been decided. https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/migrating/mv2-sunset/

Hi, I'm one of them! See you in January 2024

I use Pulse btw.