Chrome/ium is a wonderful web development environment. Can't see myself moving away from it any time soon.
No to Chrome
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Re: No to Chrome
#72Earlier quoted context omitted.
I wish someone could create a viable YouTube competitor, seems like there's no one that has succeeded just yet.
In the meantime you can use invidio.us, which scrapes youtube, and lets you 'subscribe' and create playlists without having an account directly on youtube. NewPipe is an app for getting youtube without the youtube. And PeerTube is still young, but a place to check out and get involved with, if you want to see an alternative succeed.
> getting youtube without the youtube
I think that's not really what people have issues with. The scariest thing about YouTube to me is that there's so much great content that's only on YouTube and there's not really an alternative. So if YouTube goes away for some reason, or Google decides to wipe all videos with < xxxx views, or Google decides to get rid of it for liability issues or other things there's nothing to archive this amount of content.
Re: No to Chrome
#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
People need wayfinding regardless of how you get around.
Why? We did just fine without it up until a couple years ago.
People also only used to stay in their villages or neighbourhood and don't travel as much as they do these days.
It's a different world and just because we got by with sailing the oceans and using star navigation doesn't mean we can't use modern technology to improve our lives.
Re: No to Chrome
#74Even if you have no issue with Google, this is still a good idea to encourage competition. Honestly, Chrome is not as good as it used to be anyway. For me, Google Maps and Waze are the hardest things to kick. And YouTube...
Apple Maps is now quite usable if you're on iOS...although it's no Waze.
Issues I have with Apple Maps: no cycling directions and, to a lesser degree, overall slightly-worse-quality and less intuitive visuals, like lacking first-person point-of-view or not updating starting point and estimates if I move when displaying directions.
Of course, there's an element of me having gotten too much used to Google Maps in some of this.
Re: No to Chrome
#75Isn't Google the biggest donor to Mozilla foundation?
Re: No to Chrome
#76Interesting, I just moved back to Firefox after many years of using Chrome.
I have to admit, it has gotten a lot faster recently, Firefox sync is working very well, and the Firefox Android app is a pleasure to use (being able to install uBlock origin is a huge plus).
Anything else I missed on Chrome was easily solved by an addon, or a small tweak on userChrome.css (customizing the browser interface by overriding its CSS is amazing btw).
Re: No to Chrome
#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
It also sells your eyeballs by allowing certain adds after they've been paid. It's basically racketeering. If you're keen on using chromium with manifest v2 add-ons, Vivaldi and Microsoft edge are both options to keep in mind.
That is opt-in. Edge hasn't been released yet. Vivaldi UI is a buggy and slow mess (I invite you to try it yourself)
Edge-ium is about to be released. It's very stable. I've been using the preview for months.
Re: No to Chrome
#78Even if you have no issue with Google, this is still a good idea to encourage competition. Honestly, Chrome is not as good as it used to be anyway. For me, Google Maps and Waze are the hardest things to kick. And YouTube...
OpenStreetMap had solid data, but my periodic attempts at finding a good app haven't been successful.
There is Mapquest (based on mapbox) it is surprisingly good and works well for nearly most of my use cases.
Re: No to Chrome
#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
Plus,[0]Brave is going to block [1]CNAME Cloaking first-party trackers, AFAIK no other browser, not[2]add-on, has or plan to have such blocking capabilities. [0] https://imgur.com/a/4DdMh7X [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21604825 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21582698
the [2] link states that ublock origin in firefox already supports this. did you even read it or just copy paste from someone elses brave fanboy comment.
Snarky comment aside, I'd suggest you to re-read my post, i specifically wrote "not add-on"
Re: No to Chrome
#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
Plus,[0]Brave is going to block [1]CNAME Cloaking first-party trackers, AFAIK no other browser, not[2]add-on, has or plan to have such blocking capabilities. [0] https://imgur.com/a/4DdMh7X [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21604825 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21582698
It also sells your eyeballs by allowing certain adds after they've been paid. It's basically racketeering. If you're keen on using chromium with manifest v2 add-ons, Vivaldi and Microsoft edge are both options to keep in mind.
Brave won't be affected by manifest v3 though