No to Chrome • Hacker News Board

Re: No to Chrome

#101

Post by Yajirobe » Fri, Dec 06, 2019, 2:00 PM UTC

exergy wrote: post #90

arunmib wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Don't follow the point

To avoid deep binges into youtube. First of all, youtube thumbnails are cancer anyway, so blocking them is one step towards a Lower Information Diet. And the first step to being able to quit any addictions to youtube.

> youtube thumbnails are cancer anyway

That's due to content creators, not YouTube.

Re: No to Chrome

#102

Post by RenRav » Fri, Dec 06, 2019, 2:01 PM UTC

If this gains enough traction I can see Google releasing a product as "Noto" to poison search results.

Re: No to Chrome

#103

Post by city41 » Fri, Dec 06, 2019, 2:01 PM UTC

There is also the degoogle subreddit: https://old.reddit.com/r/degoogle/

Re: No to Chrome

#104

Post by AVTizzle » Fri, Dec 06, 2019, 2:02 PM UTC

They really miss an opportunity to say WHY anywhere on the landing page, instead going straight to: "Chrome is bad. Here's some alternatives."

Re: No to Chrome

#105

Post by theklr » Fri, Dec 06, 2019, 2:02 PM UTC

petjuh wrote: post #43

Is Chrome a bad browser? I feel that unlike IE6 vs Firefox, Chrome is not inferior to the competition and in fact moves faster, not slower towards innovation.

Some times chrome is dictated by googles profit interests and likes to brute force implementations for their own interest and masking as making the web better when we have consortiums that they can contribute to. It’s not the speed of innovation it’s the why of speed (especially with things like PWA (3/4 years ago), AMP, and Houdini).

Re: No to Chrome

#106

Post by delosII » Fri, Dec 06, 2019, 2:04 PM UTC

tomstockmail wrote: post #84

thefreeman wrote: post #67

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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.

Note how all of these Brave promotion comments are from new accounts...

I had no intention to promote or advertise brave, nor am i affiliated or working for the brave browser. if that's what you imply.

Re: No to Chrome

#107

Post by FussyZeus » Fri, Dec 06, 2019, 2:05 PM UTC

AVTizzle wrote: post #104

They really miss an opportunity to say WHY anywhere on the landing page, instead going straight to: "Chrome is bad. Here's some alternatives."

They don't say Chrome itself is bad, and therefore do not seek to explain it. The page is less a technical break down and more a call to action ala activism. Chrome itself isn't an issue, it's one of many tentacles, and one of the bigger ones, leading back to Google.

Re: No to Chrome

#108

Post by FussyZeus » Fri, Dec 06, 2019, 2:06 PM UTC

S_A_P wrote: post #56

thejohnconway wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But Safari still supports extensions, surely? I’m using it with extensions, there are not stories I can see about them removing support, and their Développement pages are still up.

More specifically, they blocked extensions that work a certain way. The deal breaker for me was when uBlock origin was no longer able to run. I immediately switched to Firefox and Brave.

I have uBlock running on Safari...? Newest version. Or is uBlock not the same as uBlock origin?

Re: No to Chrome

#109

Post by jakelazaroff » Fri, Dec 06, 2019, 2:07 PM UTC

tyingq wrote: post #19

thejohnconway wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But Safari still supports extensions, surely? I’m using it with extensions, there are not stories I can see about them removing support, and their Développement pages are still up.

Their apis only support declarative static blocking lists. No heuristics, right click to block, IAB ad size detection, etc. Similar to what chrome plans to do with manifest v3. Advertisers are already figuring out how to get around that. CNAME cloacking, proxying with same domain, etc.

But on the other hand, it prevents malicious extensions from exfiltrating your browsing data.

Re: No to Chrome

#110

Post by naasking » Fri, Dec 06, 2019, 2:07 PM UTC

Doctor_Fegg wrote: post #42

ropiwqefjnpoa wrote: post #25

Even 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...

Once you've kicked the car-driving habit, kicking Google Maps is easy...

Not really. Google maps was invaluable in navigating the NYC subway when I visited.