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Google continues its rollout of gradually disabling uBlock Origin and other Manifest V2-based extensions in the Chrome web browser as part of its efforts to push users to Manifest V3-based extensions.
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Who uses Google chrome?
Unfortunately, the vast majority of internet users. And Google is banking on people not caring enough so they can push their vision of the internet, an ad-ridden, data stealing nightmare.
It is already that. It cannot possibly get any worse.
70% of the internet
So no one on Lemmy
Aww I’m a 30%er and didn’t even know it
I’m curious. Why, when Mozilla exists?
I actually use both quite a bit.
Firefox isn’t a slam dunk on all platforms for all sites. It takes a solid 30 seconds for it to let me use my cameras and mics in Linux. Some corporate sites just don’t work with it. Thankfully they fix the speed issues with it not too long ago so it’s almost as fast. A lot of corporate developers don’t even test it on their internal stuff.
For most people and most purposes it would be absolutely fine. It’s a mixed bag for me, I still use it as much as I can.
All in all, it’s just another brick in the wall…
That’s why I switched to Firefox months ago.
The spyware in a browser shaped trenchcoat didn’t do it for you?
Firefox sucks
It is the best we have
how long have you been using it? At first it was the worst browser I had used because everything was slightly different and I couldn’t find settings, however over time my brain did a 180° and now chromium is really weird to me (I’m one of those people who hate UI change)
Unless you’re talking about compatibility and in which case, yeah that’s fair.
The problem is privacy
It is packed full of telemetry and ads out of the box.
in that case there’s several options:
harden yourself: https://brainfucksec.github.io/firefox-hardening-guide
pre hardened: https://librewolf.net/
idk, just spitting options: https://www.waterfox.net/
or hell even: https://www.torproject.org/That shouldn’t be necessary if you’re calling Firefox an alternative to Chrome.
compared to the horrible privacy of chrome Firefox is better
Librewolf works pretty well for me. However, I wish that resist fingerprinting had mode fine grained controls than just on and off. I want to be able to create some fine grained exceptions for a site.
It actually works well for me and I love having it on my phone since ad block works there… that was a life changing addition.
What problem(s) are you running into that makes you say it sucks?
Privacy and freedom nightmare plus Mozilla isn’t exactly confidence inspiring.
Exactly. I switched at the first sniff of this. I do take some shit when people use my PC, but trust me, Chrome is gone for a reason.
That’s ok, Google Chrome was disabled from my PC a long time ago lol.
