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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[–] 326 points 2 years ago (2 children)
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  • [–] 108 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I'm sorry. I've seen this so many times today and I can't stand it anymore.

    I hate this article photo. What the fuck is that shit?? Gloveless fingers? Digit warmer? Turtlefinger sweater?

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    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) (2 children)

    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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    [–] 75 points 2 years ago (16 children)

    I use Firefox everywhere which means I have ads blocking everywhere, including and especially on Android. All my tabs are synced and are easily transferred between devices.

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    [–] 75 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Chrome is the new Internet Explorer.

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    [+] 61 points 2 years ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)
  • [–] 36 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (7 children)

    Firefox's marketshare is small enough relative to Chrome's that some websites might just block it at this point, if Chrome users mean ad revenue and Firefox users don't.

    https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share

    Firefox has 2.88% marketshare.

    Chrome has 65.34% marketshare.

    It's gonna be interesting to see what happens...

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  • [–] 27 points 2 years ago

    It doesn't necessary cost a meaningful amount to a site to allow Firefox users to view it; it does however cost to make it compatible with non-chromium browsers. For most viewing that's a non issue (I mean, most crms are going to work) but specific sites might stop working (YouTube already got caught throttling firefox, and tbf, streaming would cost more than reading an article or something).

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  • [–] 25 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    But I will raise people one more. Waterfox

    Never heard of it, I prefer LibreWolf
    https://librewolf.net/#what-is-librewolf

    but I'm gonna list some other popular forks

    TOR Browser (anti-censorship enhanced fork, bundled with TOR network)
    https://www.torproject.org/

    GNUzilla IceCat (GNU version)
    https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/

    Pale Moon (able to use old XUL based extensions)
    https://www.palemoon.org/

    Mullvad Browser (a security hardened fork, IIRC based on TOR, made by Mullvad VPN company)
    https://mullvad.net/en/browser

    ANDROID (Fennec/Fenix)

    Fennec F-Droid (Fennec version available on F-Droid, clean of propietary blobs)
    https://f-droid.org/packages/org.mozilla.fennec_fdroid/
    https://gitlab.com/relan/fennecbuild

    Mull (hardened fork of Fenix)
    https://gitlab.com/divested-mobile/mull-fenix

    IceRaven (yet another hardened fork of Fenix, able to install an extended list of extensions)
    https://github.com/fork-maintainers/iceraven-browser

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    [–] 51 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    Well I will sound like an old bore but throughout the nearly 20 years Firefox is out I never looked at anything else. Seen the rise and fall of Internet Explorer seeing the rise and fall of chrome.

    Even Firefox in its dreadfully slow era (2010-2016) it did not made me change. And let me be clear Firefox is far from perfect. But for my use cases (privacy and security balance over certain conveniences) I would not change for any commercially backed Browser.

    Moral of the story. It's better to donate to Mozilla and enjoy the freedom of your browser than giving yourself in on the erratic behavior of the big tech companies.

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    [–] 49 points 2 years ago (23 children)

    The silver lining here is that you'd hope that more people will simply adopt Firefox. It's user share has been too low for too long given how great it is

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    [–] 46 points 2 years ago

    Good thing I exclusively use Firefox.

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  • [–] 45 points 2 years ago

    Fortunately I at least have Firefox on Linux. But then when I need to use Windows for something… well look at that, also Firefox!

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  • [–] 38 points 2 years ago (16 children)
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    [–] 37 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Switched to Firefox at work today. Looks like I still need Chrome to do the VPN handshake, but the more of us there are, the more pressure we have on IT!

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    [–] 36 points 2 years ago (14 children)

    It's weird that I've been on firefox for the vast majority of my life and I always had this perception that "everyone" was using it. Here in lemmy you hear about it all the time, my friends use it, I see it on my newsfeeds etc

    But when you check the market share it around 2.8% while chrome is 65.1% https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share

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    [–] 34 points 2 years ago

    I say this a lot but get Firefox.

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

    Now we gotta have websites developing for all web browsers instead of Google Chrome like it's Internet Explorer 2.0.

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  • [–] 33 points 2 years ago (15 children)

    I've been way more than a decade (closer to two decades) uninterruptedly using Firefox. I've never used chrome as a my main browser, ever.

    But still, I'll be naive if I didn't recognize that this kind of shit will affect me even if it's just indirectly.

    Next year they'll surely will be forcing many webs only working in "manifest V3 compliant browsers". I'm sure of that.

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    [–] 32 points 2 years ago

    firefox extensions are the best patches i have for enshittification

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  • [–] [S] 50 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    They expect most users to not care, and sadly they're right.

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

    Can't wait for nothing to change 'cause 90% of chrome users don't use add-ons.

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    [–] 22 points 2 years ago (18 children)

    I can't remember a time when I didn't use Firefox. Actually back in highschool I used IE around 2002ish but only because I didn't know any better back then.

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