Next move by Google: slowly crippling the functions of most Google sites (YT, Gmail, etc.) on Firefox for "better UX on major browsers."
You see? Power corrupts.
Google proposes changes to Chromium which would disable uBlock Origin
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#142Brave is my new everyday browser since they added Chrome plugin support.
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#143Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Firefox is really the only thing preventing a complete web browser monoculture WebKit?
Trading Google overlords for Apple overlords does not seem like an upgrade.
That's totally fine, but it's still disingenuous to claim that Firefox is the only other browser out there.
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#144Earlier quoted context omitted.
I really just don't understand the obsession with Chrome, especially in hacker communities. Sorry Google, I feel "icky & gross" when I use you.
Firefox just doesn’t have enough advantages yet that would convince someone comfortable with Chrome to switch over. While privacy is an ever growing concern, it isn’t a strong enough feature for most people.
Well now Firefox will have ad blocking plugins that works and Chrome will not.
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#145Used to love google, for many many years. Slowly starting to despise them, though. It's different for everyone, but for me it started with this gmail redesign that made the product so slow it's almost worthless to me. And worst of all is I feel like there isn't even a good competing service to switch to. And now Chrome...
Funny you say that. The gmail redesign is absolutely dysfunctional in Firefox and had me searching for desktop email clients.
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#146I don't think I can go back to the internet without uBO+uMatrix. On a related note, why doesn't Chrome for Android have extensions? I get the sense it's because it was more strategic to ban extensions entirely than to allow ad blocking on mobile.
Can't remember the site, but uBO reported blocking over 1100 requests when I landed there the other day. I can't imagine browsing without it.
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#147For those that have migrated from Chrome to Firefox recently, what adjustments did you have to make/get used to in Firefox?
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#148I find it disappointing that uBlock cannot be installed on Firefox on iOS.
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#149This makes me again wish that Microsoft had used Firefox's engine for their new version of Edge.
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#150So we have a browser with nearly 70% market share, made by an advertising company that's arguably the most powerful business on the internet, interfering with ad blocking. And of course there is no regulatory body that is able or willing to step in. Great.
"President Donald Trump’s nominee for U.S. attorney general, William Barr, told lawmakers on Tuesday that he would focus attention on the “huge behemoths” in Silicon Valley at the center of a debate over antitrust enforcement. " https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-barr-antitrust/... We can only hope.
Barr is notably for a surveillance state, more or less. Relying on a pick of Trump's to solve anything in the Valley is a recipe for disaster.