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Re: Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension

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Post by mrandish »

kibibu wrote: post #134
geysersam wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hah > 6. You can make money without doing evil implies that they're doing it for fun then I guess?

Technically, you can make money without doing evil.

I heard they actually changed to this wording from the original, which for a long time was "Don't be evil."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_be_evil

Re: Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension

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Post by miroljub »

nishanmiranda wrote: post #36
HerbManic wrote: post #28

Just remember that Google is essentially an advertising company and that they were always going to squeeze this opening closed as soon as they could get away with it. I do fear for a future were even Firefox ends up caving in. Ladybird browser might be our only hope until something legal comes along to block functionality.

Firefox haven't caved in so far. Why do u think it might in future?

Mozilla Foundation is more interested in spending money on anything else than making Firefox genuinely better.

If money gets short, the first thing they would cut would be a browser.

Re: Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension

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Post by anal_reactor »

dotcoma wrote: post #4

Why are people on HN still using Chrome? (or Edge, or Opera…)

On mobile, Opera is the only usable browser. It supports text reflow on zoom, and also I can choose the download folder for each file. Allows me to keep porn and non-porn downloads separate.

Re: Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension

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Post by close04 »

sshine wrote: post #137
close04 wrote: post #114

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> the ad money kept rolling in Why "ad money"? That's a very uncharitable interpretation and for anyone not aware of the situation it's misleading. They're not paid for ads or by ads, they're paid by Google to continue being a viable alternative to Chrome. Is every Google employee getting "ad money" every month, or a salary? The payment is more accurately described as a protection tax.

While the nuance is important, money from Google is ad money: - Directing people to Google Search means Firefox users get exposed to ads - The money given to Firefox was made selling ads - Google is an ad company So yes, Google gives Firefox money for political reasons. Made from ads, so they can sell ads, including to Firefox users.

I'm with you on the first one and that's the closest reason why you could call Firefox payment "ad money". But the rest are not too strong. Google makes a lot of non-ad money too, even if it's a smaller portion than ads. You don't call airlines "banks" just because they make all of their money from currency-like "miles", and even fly at a loss [0].

What I want to say is that calling it "ad money" makes Firefox look bad when it shouldn't.

[0] https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/09/airlines-b...

Re: Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension

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Post by pseudalopex »

austin-cheney wrote: post #155

The solution then is to run the equivalent of a PiHole on your private network and then configure your portable devices to always use that PiHole as their DNS service via self hosted VPN

DNS ad blocking is useful. It does not replace browser ad blocking.

Re: Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension

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Post by Chiron1991 »

20k wrote: post #140
Ennea wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Firefox has added highlighting of search terms in the page's scroll bar quite a few versions ago, if you want to give it another spin for that.

Weird, it still only highlights a single occurrence for me if I ctrl-f something, is there a setting for this or something?

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Re: Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension

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Post by qmmmur »

eviks wrote: post #131
chinathrow wrote: post #23

Look, we're having a good time on Firefox since November 9, 2004. Come join us!

Right after they reach at least ~80% of customization Vivaldi offers!

This isn't the gotcha you think it is. Every time I try Vivaldi I am right back at Firefox and I am surely not alone. I have never understood the obsession with tree style tabs or vertical tabs. I don't need to customise my browser at all and I like supporting engine diversity.

Re: Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension

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Post by nmeagent »

dotcoma wrote: post #4

Why are people on HN still using Chrome? (or Edge, or Opera…)

I keep chromium installed mostly to run virtual tabletop software (specifically Foundry VTT), because webgl performance in firefox is not great (though it has improved somewhat in the last couple of years). There are also a few sites (mostly restaurants for some reason) that just refuse to work properly in firefox, so I sometimes fall back to chromium. I wish I could drop it like a bad habit, because frankly Google's shenanigans piss me off on a semi-regular basis.
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