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[–] 137 points 2 years ago* (11 children)

Firefox is calling all of you.

We just added a “copy link without trackers” context menu option too ;)

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    BILLY MAZE HERE WITH A HOT NEW BROWSER PRODUCT

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    Well at this period of time one of the interns will have removed Firefox's user agent from the whitelist most Google services by mistake again.

    If so, I just hope antitrust lawsuits will be fast enough so that it doesn't build up a bad reputation for Firefox ...

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    [–] 115 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Ad Blockers will limit Chrome usage starting June 2024.

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

    Users will limit Google Chrome starting June 2024.

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  • [–] 31 points 2 years ago

    I've been limiting Google Chrome for about 5 years now.

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  • [–] 29 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    I’d be very curious how they are going to try and fuck over Firefox, or similar browsers.

    It’s not “just business “, it’s personal. It’s all personal, Mike. You know who I learned that from? Your Father, the Godfather.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago

    Google's proposed "Web Integrity API" browser-DRM was probably the biggest attack on the open web since its conception. I don't think they have fully given up on that idea and they'll likely sneak it in more gradually and slowly. Manifest v3 is just a small baby step in this direction of taking away user control.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    The various websites will just say Firefox is "not supported". I just wrote this in another comment, but Twitch doesn't let you log in on FF because it has some kind of advanced tracking protection. I guess YouTube and the rest will just join the fuckery and block you from using their content if you're on FF. I mean, I really hope they won't do that, but knowing what degree of assholery these companies can pull off, I think it's the next step.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago*

    Presumably the FTC will have something to say about blatant anticompetitive actions such at these. Then again, that's why corporations buy themselves representatives, senators and judges.

    Edit: such not suck

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  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago

    Oh ffs. FINE! I will switch away from Chrome!

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  • [–] 27 points 2 years ago

    what a bunch of cunts

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago

    Congratulations, you are being tailored a "personal experience"! Please do not resist.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago

    Not surprising since Google is an ad company. I

    Meanwhile I have been using Firefox on my various computers for a few years now.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Oh no! There are literally zero other options but to use Chrome!

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

    I know you are being sarcastic, but it's not sarcasm at all, and therefore no laughing matter, when more and more websites drop support for none-chromium browsers, or actively block them. Netizens tend to have some missguided belief that every problem can be solved with software alone. This is a trap.

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    [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    I limited google chrome a long time ago when i switched back to firefox for good

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    I wonder if there ever will be a point where the mayor populous actually goes "screw this" and starts finding out how to change their browser via "how to change internet" or "how to change google"

    will there ever be a point where this even happens i wonder, like at all

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    Firefox's decision to move to WebExtensions is starting to look even more questionable, IMO.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

    Yeah, perhaps not their greatest move ever. I miss how customizable Firefox used to be. For a long time I used Waterfox Classic to postpone the switch, but it got harder and harder. Now you have to use stuff like paxmod to get back some of the old features.

    I don't know the internal technical issues too well, though, and they have made a lot of headway in the speed department since switching. I do recall discussion around when they dropped them about being held back by the addon architecture.

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

    On mobile I'm using DDG as primary browser. Firefox as secondary.

    On my personal machine it's Firefox and Chromium.

    For my job I use Thorium as main (switched coming from Brave), Chrome, Firefox and Edge.

    Could do without Chrome any day.

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

    I'm only using Chrome for work because the profile switching & syncing is so much smoother and our company is split into two primary brands - my brain handles it better with an individual browser profile for each.

    We're consolidating everything into one next year, meaning I can ditch the second browser!

    I've tried setting up a second profile but it was just too much effort to get it working and bring everything across from both, then do the same on my laptop for travel, so I'll just wait for now.

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    [–] [B] 4 points 2 years ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    A year later, Google is restarting the phase-out schedule, and while it has changed some things, Chrome will eventually be home to inferior filtering extensions.

    Google's blog post says the plan to kill Manifest V2, the current format for Chrome extensions, is back on starting June 2024.

    The company says: "We expect it will take at least a month to observe and stabilize the changes in pre-stable before expanding the rollout to stable channel Chrome, where it will also gradually roll out over time.

    On the high end now for me, Slack is drinking 500MB, while a single Google Chat tab, created by this company that is so concerned about performance, is at 1.5GB of memory usage.

    Google is adding a completely arbitrary limit on how many "rules" content filtering add-ons can include, which are needed to keep up with the nearly infinite ad-serving sites that are out there (by the way, Ars Technica subscriptions give you an ad-free reading experience and make a great holiday gift!).

    Mozilla's blog post on the subject promises "Firefox’s implementation of Manifest V3 ensures users can access the most effective privacy tools available like uBlock Origin and other content-blocking and privacy-preserving extensions."


    The original article contains 714 words, the summary contains 197 words. Saved 72%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    I know Firefox is the popular option here, but do we have any serious non-google managed Chromium based browser options out there that don't have some weird gimmick?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    That's okay. Literally the only thing I use chrome for is gmail.

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

    of seeings patturn

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