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De-Googling: My Progress

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Re: De-Googling: My Progress

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Post by logicprog »

mrwesleycrusher wrote: post #192
yachtman wrote: post #181

Firefox is now objectively better than Chrome in every way. I would recommend switching moral reasons aside. Chrome's memory management is abysmal. I now get the same shudder when I see someone with chrome on their machine that I used to get when I saw someone running Internet Explorer (which may even be better than chrome now too).

Before I say this, I would just like to say I run Firefox as often as I can and love love love it, but chrome is better, due entirely to the market share of the Blink web engine. Microsoft Teams' webapp only works in Blink. Hulu bitches about widevine until Firefox gives me the notification to enable it. Canvas (that thing all us students use) gets random rendering errors on gecko that makes the UI malfunction a lot.…

> Canvas (that thing all us students use) gets random rendering errors on gecko that makes the UI malfunction a lot.

I use Canvas every day in Firefox and have never had a single problem or error. Anecdata, I know, but that's my experience.

Re: De-Googling: My Progress

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Post by kmarc »

severine wrote: post #136
kmarc wrote: post #125

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you elaborate on the Nextcloud&Syncthing part? It would be awesome to have LAN local syncing (as Syntching does), while being able to share doc to the outside world (NextCloud's functionality). Did you figure this out? Anther topic: yeah, youtube is not something you can replace, but you can still use other frontends, thus the rabbithole recommendation engine doesn't affect you, nor the advertisements. On Android…

Not OP and not a NextCloud or Syncthing user, but maybe this helps: https://help.nextcloud.com/t/syncthing-nextcloud-how-to/5459...

Unfortunately I am familiar with this 4 year old answer, yes. I rather hoped there is a better solution since.

Re: De-Googling: My Progress

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Post by logicprog »

Infernal wrote: post #183
yachtman wrote: post #181

Firefox is now objectively better than Chrome in every way. I would recommend switching moral reasons aside. Chrome's memory management is abysmal. I now get the same shudder when I see someone with chrome on their machine that I used to get when I saw someone running Internet Explorer (which may even be better than chrome now too).

The only reason I have Chrome installed on any machine is for YouTube. I tend to get weird flickers when in full screen while watching on other browsers, and Chrome is the only one I’m aware of that will allow you to view YouTube content in HDR.

My Firefox outright freezes if I try to full screen a YouTube video, but so does Chrome so this seems to be a whole 'nother problem lol.

Re: De-Googling: My Progress

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Post by ocdtrekkie »

mrwesleycrusher wrote: post #192
yachtman wrote: post #181

Firefox is now objectively better than Chrome in every way. I would recommend switching moral reasons aside. Chrome's memory management is abysmal. I now get the same shudder when I see someone with chrome on their machine that I used to get when I saw someone running Internet Explorer (which may even be better than chrome now too).

Before I say this, I would just like to say I run Firefox as often as I can and love love love it, but chrome is better, due entirely to the market share of the Blink web engine. Microsoft Teams' webapp only works in Blink. Hulu bitches about widevine until Firefox gives me the notification to enable it. Canvas (that thing all us students use) gets random rendering errors on gecko that makes the UI malfunction a lot.…

If you absolutely have to have Blink, use Edge. You get basically Chrome, but with Firefox's tracking prevention built-in.

Re: De-Googling: My Progress

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Post by taneq »

andrepd wrote: post #133

Moving from Google cloud to Apple cloud, from Google messenger to Facebook messenger... What's the point honestly?

I'd much rather three different companies each have a slice of my data than one company have all of my data and be able to cross-reference it.

Re: De-Googling: My Progress

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Post by lowdose »

ocdtrekkie wrote: post #187
lowdose wrote: post #163

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is no point since iCloud runs on Google Cloud infrastructure.

Even if this is true, there's a significant difference in that Google would lose nearly every single one of GCP's customers if it was ever proven they were mining data of their customers' cloud services. And at the very least, it is much harder for Google to correlate a competitors' account systems and user data with their own profiles they use for ad targeting. And of course, most importantly: Apple collects a lot l…

What is the difference between Apple and you as a customer paying for Google Cloud?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2...

Re: De-Googling: My Progress

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Post by dublinben »

manigandham wrote: post #17

I have Fastmail and other private email services but I've been unable to really move over because of all the integrations that Gmail has. Automatic email scanning for trip details, calendar integrations, searches from the web also surfacing details from emails, google voice, tons of other apps and extensions. It would be a nice if there was a way to get all this functionality beyond Gmail.

Apple will automatically find trip details and events from your Mail app and add them to your Calendar.

Re: De-Googling: My Progress

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Post by kevingadd »

Infernal wrote: post #183
yachtman wrote: post #181

Firefox is now objectively better than Chrome in every way. I would recommend switching moral reasons aside. Chrome's memory management is abysmal. I now get the same shudder when I see someone with chrome on their machine that I used to get when I saw someone running Internet Explorer (which may even be better than chrome now too).

The only reason I have Chrome installed on any machine is for YouTube. I tend to get weird flickers when in full screen while watching on other browsers, and Chrome is the only one I’m aware of that will allow you to view YouTube content in HDR.

Last time I tried it, classic Edge had HDR support. I don't know whether the new Blink-based Edge has it, but it might be worth testing!

Re: De-Googling: My Progress

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Post by _piif »

yachtman wrote: post #181

Firefox is now objectively better than Chrome in every way. I would recommend switching moral reasons aside. Chrome's memory management is abysmal. I now get the same shudder when I see someone with chrome on their machine that I used to get when I saw someone running Internet Explorer (which may even be better than chrome now too).

I occasionally have Firefox freeze due to some site's script freezing, forcing me to end it through task manager as Firefox won't respond to any button clicks.

Also (unless I missed something) there's still no way to get hardware video acceleration on Firefox on Linux outside of Wayland. When I'm on Linux I'm also installing Chromium (with the VA-API patches applied) entirely for YouTube as my CPU usage ramps up immensely when watching videos. Watching videos in mpv (or equivalent software) is an alternative, but I like the convenience of watching videos directly through the browser.

Other than that though Firefox has been rock solid for me and has been my daily browser for years now.

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