Time to switch to uBlock Lite or another ad blocker.
  • iii@mander.xyzEnglish
    202·
    5 days ago

    Chrome is the adblock-block? You might have outblocked me today, but I’ll firefox you away!

  • zeroshift11@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1111·
    5 days ago

    I recently started using Brave Browser as I noticed YouTube ads were starting to seep through randomly. Seems alright no far.

    • scarabic@lemmy.worldEnglish
      211·
      5 days ago

      Sad saga, but here we are. I remember when Chrome was new and brought much needed speed and low resource usage to the browsing experience of the day. I even got email from a Chrome engineer once about a bug I mentioned in a forum, asking me for more information.

      Google was already an ad company by then so anyone could have looked forward to this inevitability. Some did. Most of us did not.

      Chrome has just always been there for some younger people but it will now live in my memory as a fully encapsulated end-to-end enshittification experience that I really should have always expected.

      And just like it used to be with Internet Explorer, I am forced to use Chrome at work all day because thats the IT & security approved / enterprise-managed browser.

      • brbposting@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        5 days ago

        Made me feel better when I said I wish I knew what would come, back in the day when I was installing Chrome for people - and someone here replied “hey we all wish we knew when we did that” 🫂

      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        3·
        5 days ago

        I, too, switched to Chrome around when they launched due to drastically better performance. But shortly after (a couple years?), I found out Opera had similar performance and had cool other features, so I switched to that. Opera then converted to a Chrome-clone, so I switched to Firefox, which had largely caught up w/ performance by that time.

        If you have the option, request that Firefox be added to the supported app list or whatever by your IT team. Tell them you need some Firefox-specific extensions or something for your job.

    • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
      61·
      5 days ago

      Imagine having an OS that doesn’t come with a proper package manager (and Firefox installed by default, for that matter).

    • Tux@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      659·
      5 days ago

      Just like how Micro$oft Windows is advertsiting Linux, Google Chrome advertsites Firefox!

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        913·
        5 days ago

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  • aLaStOr_MoOdY47@lemmy.worldEnglish
    20·
    4 days ago

    Stopped using that garbage browser a couple of weeks ago. Hardened Firefox ftw. Just using stock Firefox isn’t enough if you’re concerned about your privacy on the internet btw. If all you’re looking for is an ad free experience tho, then stock Firefox should be enough.

    • Nalivai@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      4 days ago

      Firefox’s future isn’t looking good with all that layoffs and lost money. I am very scared that it might go the way of Opera, and then we will trully have nothing left.

        • Nalivai@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          3 days ago

          Those are made on Firefox engine. That is made and maintained by the company Mozilla. Which is experiencing those problems.
          It’s like those people who say that they don’t use chrome because it’s shit and breaks privacy, they use edge and brave.

        • IsoKiero@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          2·
          3 days ago

          All of those are still standing on Firefox’s shoulders and the actual rendering engine on the browser isn’t really trivial thing to build. Sure, they’re not going away, and likely Firefox will be around too for quite a while, but the world wide web as we currently know it is changing and Google and Microsoft are few of the bigger players pushing the change.

          If you’re old enough you’ll remember the banners ‘Best viewed with <this browser> on <that resolution>’, and it’s not too far off from the future we’ll have if the big players get their wishes. Things like google suite, whatever meta is offering and pretty much “the internet” as your Joe Average understands it wants to implement technology where it’s not possible to block ads or modify the content you’re shown in any other way. It’s not too far off from your online banking and other very much real life affecting services start to have boundaries in place where they require certain level of ‘security’ from your browser and you can bet that things which allow content modifying things, like adblocker, doesn’t qualify for the new standards.

          On many places it’s already illegal to modify or tamper DRM protected content in any ways (does anyone remember libdvdcss?) and the plan is to include similar (more or less) restrictions to the whole world wide web, which would say that we’ll have things like fediverse who allow browsers like firefox and ‘the rest’ like banking, flight/ticket/hotel/whatever booking sites, big news outlets and so on who only allow the ‘secure’ version of the browser. And that of course has very little to do with actual security, they just want control over your device and what content is fed to you, regardless if you like it or not.

  • nh5@lemmy.worldEnglish
    32·
    4 days ago

    Between Manifest V3 and the Play Integrity API, Google is really trying hard to kill the open internet and android.

    • Andromxda 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      1·
      3 days ago

      But thankfully Manifest V3 is only relevant to Chromium browsers, and there are other options. The proposed web environment integrity API would be much worse, as they could simply blacklist any browsers they don’t like, and deny them access to the most popular websites.

    • piecat@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14·
      5 days ago

      Just wait, there will be “features” that are mandatory on most sites, only supported in chrome.

      • bitwolf@lemmy.oneEnglish
        6·
        5 days ago

        I usually use a useragent switcher to bypass.

        But the teams website for example opens a Microsoft specific browser api so its annoyingly locked to Edge specifically on mobile.

      • teft@lemmy.worldEnglish
        51·
        5 days ago

        So download a user agent switcher and set it to show you as using chrome. This is what i do with firefox and i haven’t run across a site that thinks i’m using firefox.

    • tb_@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      4 days ago

      Vivaldi is my backup browser, but I don’t want to contribute to Chromium’s market share so Firefox it is 99% of the time.

      • Mwa@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        3 days ago

        My backup browser is cromite I was using ungoogled chromium but I found cromite a chromium browser with more privacy features.
        Cachy browser ftw(librewolf based browser its a great main browser i use).

    • Mwa@lemm.eeEnglish
      31·
      4 days ago

      Vivaldi is nice, but some people may not like it due to it being closed source(some of vivaldi is open source with a closed source ui) , personally I think its a little bit sluggish.

  • Kokesh@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    5 days ago

    It’s totally ok. I’ve phased Chrome out in the beginning of the year already.

  • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
    27·
    5 days ago

    I have always used Firefox on all my devices, except for one: the Chromebook I was forced to buy because of compatibility with my college’s test proctoring spyware.

    On that device, not only did uBlock Origin quit working the other day, but today Chrome even kept disabling uBlock Lite with the error message that “This extension reloaded itself too frequently”. It could be some kind of legitimate bug, but it sure feels a lot like foul play on Google’s part.

    • EndlessNightmare@reddthat.comEnglish
      35·
      5 days ago

      Been using Firefox for as long as I can remember now. Never had a reason to switch away, and I’m feeling rather vindicated.

      • letsgo@lemm.eeEnglish
        51·
        5 days ago

        There was a period some years ago where Firefox and Chrome were leapfrogging each other: Firefox would get slow and crap so I’d switch, then Chrome would get slow and crap and I’d switch back to FF, and so on. I’ve been on Chrome for quite a while it seems, until this development with uBO, well for me the internet is unusable without a shitblocker, so that’s the end of Chrome. Thankfully FF is up to the job.

      • TheRedSpade@lemmy.worldEnglish
        41·
        5 days ago

        I switched to Chrome probably a decade ago, because at the time it was significantly faster. I switched to chromium at some point and ended up back on Firefox when Google’s password manager stopped working on every browser except Chrome. Firefox is noticeably faster these days and doesn’t crash as often.

  • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
    102·
    5 days ago

    I’ve been dual welding browsers since chrome came out. The second they started talking about deprecating manifest 2, I test drove Vivaldi and Brave. Now they’re set up as my second.

    I tried to convert over to Libwolf, But it absolutely massacres my passkeys.

    I plan to main Firefox until they do something stupid which I think is inevitable with their recent statements.

    I’m just hoping that by the time The other Firefox shoe drops there will be something else viable on the market. I don’t know how long Brave and Vivaldi can hold out with chromium changing underneath them

    • zewm@lemmy.worldEnglish
      17·
      5 days ago

      I wouldn’t trust Brave as it has a poor track record for privacy and is often used as a crypto miner behind the scenes.

      • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
        112·
        5 days ago

        That’s a fairly long time ago now and the crypto token crap is off by default. As far as I know they are the only browser with a paid development team that is trying to combat YouTube ads. And they’re blocking technique is unique amongst the options we have. If it comes down to using Brave for YouTube, I have no problem with doing that.

        • darreninthenet@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
          2·
          5 days ago

          The only thing stopping me moving to Brave is the awful bookmark sync implementation… when I used it for a small period in the past it was keeping some I’d long deleted on other devices etc

          I also would prefer it to implement bookmark separators (like both Vivaldi and FF do) but I can live without those if they sorted out the sync.

          • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
            1·
            5 days ago

            Yeah, I don’t use their sync for bookmarks. I just keep the plugins the same with that. I installed the X bookmarks plugin everywhere and just do a manual export/import when I want to. Is keeping my toolbars lined up between all the different browsers.

        • Traister101@lemmy.todayEnglish
          61·
          5 days ago

          Yup. I always get shat on for mentioning that the crypto crap is off by default. I quite like the idea behind it, have the browser send you ads and then allow you to choose what to do with the earnings but in practice it doesn’t work so well sadly

          • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
            61·
            5 days ago

            Yeah, sadly, bringing Brave into any browser conversation is like saying, “Please take a dump on my face.” And I get some of the vitriol. Brave would likely sell you down the river for $7 if they thought they could get away with it, but so would two-thirds of the browsers out there. Even Firefox, the last true holdout at the moment, is hungry. I hope they find a rev stream before they do something drastic.

            I like the concept of letting you choose the ads you see and earning some of the compensation. But it needs to happen at the advertiser level. I’d like a world where I pay a little to the browser, a little to the originator, and maybe get a small pool to dedicate to a site or cause I want to patronize.

          • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
            1·
            5 days ago

            And that’s why I keep them in the running. They openly claim that they intend to support V2 for as long as they are able but they admit the possibilities of having to push that code in if chromium made it difficult enough to maintain.

    • bitwolf@lemmy.oneEnglish
      3·
      5 days ago

      Oof I was considering LW but now am worried about the passkeys. Was that from an import or a remove and recreate?

      Been meaning to try Zen but maybe I should test more before trying either

      • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
        1·
        5 days ago

        It won’t trigger or accept my Bitwarden passkeys, and on google, if I do the use other device, it pops on my phone for bio auth, but the browser just never accepts the credentials.

        I’d try it if I were you, I do a lot of strange things. just check to make sure they work for you first.