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

It's funny how this comes after Chrome's switch to Manifest V3, which makes ad blocking not possible on Chrome and was purely for security reasons and not for disabling ad blockers. Now that Chrome users can't block ads on the first-party site, they're going after third-party clients. Such coincidental timing.

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

    was purely for security reasons and not for disabling ad blockers.

    I had not heard of Manifest v3 and actually can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not. I guess you are.

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

    They're not being sarcastic, they are repeating Google's (bs) justification

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

    They are being sarcastic, with the emphasis on "purely", while saying Google's justification. It's exactly to point out it's bs.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    I literally don't know what people who say this mean. It looks totally modern, almost identical to the chrome and edge UIs, it's fully customizable, and there are thousands of extensions to alter the appearance in a single click, not to mention custom css styling if you want complete control.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    How is the mobile app terrible? I've been using it for years with no issues, and it has many extensions that chrome on Android doesn't allow like adblocking.

    The tabs in FF are great, for years now FF has been much better at handing huge accounts of passive tabs, and there are tons of extensions to provide any functionality you could want.

    I guarantee you if you just install a few extensions that you like and use it for a week you won't even notice any more.

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

    There are a ton of other WebKit/Blink based browsers to choose from! Safari, Vivaldi, Brave… not to mention good old Firefox and Gecko!

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

    Are there any semi-popular alternative browsers still based on WebKit? I thought most of them like Brave and Vivaldi were based on Chromium's Blink rather than WebKit.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago*

    Technically not really, I just said WebKit to avoid breaking down the whole fork situation in my comment. Blink isn’t that different in reality so, WebKit for simplicity. Safari and Chrome are much closer to one another than Firefox is to either, so 🤷‍♂️

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

    Firefox has had data sync for a long ass time.

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    What the fuck? Can you sync chrome to edge and edge to opera? What kind of bad faith bullshit ass argument are you trying to pull here?

    You're claiming that you cant sync data on Firefox, when you absolutely can. Then you claim that what you meant was that you cant cross browser sync on multiple devices. Well congratufuckinglations, you can't on any other browser either.

    What is wrong with you?

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago

    What's wrong with you? Are you unable to read my comment, or is it comprehension problems?

    I'm saying if I switch to Firefox, I have to switch it on both PC and mobile, but I hate the UI on mobile. I can't leave one as Chrome (mobile) and the other as Firefox (PC) and expect them to work together (sync). Thus, I'd rather stock to Chrome because the ui is better.

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