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The Adblockalypse is coming (lemmy.world)
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[–] 238 points 3 years ago (29 children)

For anyone who thinks they're "stuck" with chrome, Firefox has gotten it's shit together massively in the last few years.

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  • [–] 75 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    Which is why Google's next step is to effectively require chromium browsers for any websites wanting access to Google services and products.

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

    Sounds like a good reason to stop using Google services and products. Some examples (note, I haven't used some of these yet):

    Search - DuckDuckGo

    Email - ProtonMail

    Drive - Dropbox

    Sheets/Docs - Zoho

    Some of these examples may not the best for everyone, but my point is that we do not have to let Google continue to push us around.

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

    No, it sounds like a good reason for anti-trust regulators to make an injunction to stop Google from doing it.

    It's time for this fantasy bullshit notion that boycotts are worth a damn to end. In reality, it's nothing but pro-corporate propaganda designed to make people think they're "fighting the man" or whatever when they're actually completely ineffective.

    Now, don't get me wrong: by all means, please feel free to quit using Google's shit! That's 100% a good thing and I fully encourage it! Just don't delude yourself into thinking it represents even the slightest shred of a solution to the systemic problem Google's anticompetitive strategies represent.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 years ago

    It's not you and me. It's the websites. They're not going to give up on having anyone with Chrome or using Google services from being able to access their sites. We'd end up with 2 Internets - one with Google and one without. And we all know that the one with Google will win.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Can you suggest a replacement for Android?

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    These are built from the open source version of Android and do not have Google stuff:

    • LineageOS
    • GrapheneOS (can be installed on Pixels)

    These are based on various flavors of Linux (Android is technically a flavor of Linux too):

    • PureOS (Librem 5 line by Purism)
    • Ubuntu Touch (support for lots of devices, but typically not the flagships)
    • Manjaro OS (on PinePhone by PINE64, an open source hardware community, which is the best way I can describe it)
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  • [–] 36 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Feels bad but I can't condone this behaviour anymore and I feel ashamed that I haven't seen the greed Google is capable of doing.

    In the coming months I will do my best to migrate away from the Google system, even if I end up paying a tad more, maybe just in time to set up a home server for photos.

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  • [–] 39 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    I dont understand when people think Firefox didn't have their shit together. Been using it since 2006 and never had an issue. Ya'll must be doing some serious browsing.

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  • [–] 17 points 3 years ago

    Been using since release. I never felt like I was making some kind of compromise by using it. Firefox always had their shit together from my experience.

    Now, it's on par with Chrome or better than (tradeoffs and personal preference), even for developing web apps. Firefox dev tools pull ahead of Chrome's, then Chrome catches up and does something new and useful, then Firefox catches up, and so forth.

    Firefox is good. It's not like "I'm leaving Photoshop for the GIMP" kind of thing-- It's like "I'm leaving Honda for Toyota."

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago

    When chrome was released, Firefox felt bloated visually and slow. I switched to chrome with the initial release, then tried to come back to Firefox some years later. Still felt like it was slow.

    Im back trying it again. The desktop browser seems to work alright, but I'm growing weary of the Android app.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    i remember it looking pretty sketchy and bad back in the day while chrome looked a lot nicer and user friendly

    im a firefox user now i think chrome looks ugly compared to firefox nowadays

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  • [–] 21 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Now you can use desktop extensions on firefox mobile. They stepped up big time.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (2 children)

    Did they lift the "only curated extensions" bullshit yet? I'm on Kiwi just to be able to run my own (unpacked) extensions that FF doesn't let me do so.

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  • [–] 16 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    Firefox has never not had it's shit together. It's worked fine. I never understood people having issues with it, unless they were running like 50 extensions and a bunch of grease monkey scripts along with a crusty old profile with a massive cache of old data.

    Meanwhile everyone is complaining about Chrome eating up all their RAM

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  • [–] 15 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Funnily enough Chromium actually consumes less RAM and is safer due to better sandboxing.

    But neither of these concern the average user. However, the main difference between the browsers user may notice is how pages that are still loading behave. Firefox has the correct behavior. Aka waiting for vast majority of the elements to finish loading versus Chromium just going "if it's rendered it's intractable." This unfortunately means that Firefox feels slower even though it's actually faster.

    Also, on behalf of the dark mode enjoyers, flashing white for a moment while launching, loading web pages or updating contents of a webpage is incredibly annoying. None of the Chromium browsers flash white on dark mode.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I don't think FF supports PWAs yet. I need to use Chromium to turn some sites like Discord into PWAs, as the desktop Linux version doesn't screen share on Wayland. I also like having YTM as an app.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I believe that there is an extension for Firefox pwa support, but the Android version definitely supports pwas natively.

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

    Any idea if Firefox has a good translation extension? Like Chrome has Google translate that actively translates the sites you enter into English.

    I live in a country that I don't speak the language of, so I often need to use websites and translate them to English, which is why I've been stuck with Chrome.

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