Why I’m done with Chrome

Post by delinka » Sun, Sep 23, 2018, 10:45 PM UTC

blihp wrote: post #155

mehrdadn wrote: post #32

For now at least, there's this escape hatch: chrome://flags/#account-consistency Edit: Some are saying this doesn't work on Chrome 69. :(

A better escape hatch is https://mozilla.org Granted, Mozilla's had their own issues and some apps / sites may have become as dependent on Chrome as sites were on IE way back when. But given Google's flexing their control muscles over the last few years, a clean break is probably the better long term solution.

Post by cimmanom » Sun, Sep 23, 2018, 10:46 PM UTC

hellofunk wrote: post #22

brian-armstrong wrote: post #10

Firefox is a truly fantastic browser now. I've been using it again for about 2 years and haven't regretted it at all. There have been a couple of weird feature hiccups but generally Mozilla seems to get things right.

I wish I could use it but it has serious performance problems on macOS. I tried and it was just terrible. (thought not all Mac users have problems, quite a number do, and Mozilla has an open issue asking for debugging logs from Macs to find the reasons).

Post by [deleted] » Sun, Sep 23, 2018, 10:47 PM UTC

bordercases wrote: post #200

allenz wrote: post #157

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Listening in" is inaccurate. "Ok Google" was opt-in only, and did not record users without consent. Chromium downloaded but didn't run the binary blob. Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9724409 including Google's perspective: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9735795

Why download it in the first place?

Post by ctnb » Sun, Sep 23, 2018, 10:50 PM UTC

mehrdadn wrote: post #176

blihp wrote: post #155

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A better escape hatch is https://mozilla.org Granted, Mozilla's had their own issues and some apps / sites may have become as dependent on Chrome as sites were on IE way back when. But given Google's flexing their control muscles over the last few years, a clean break is probably the better long term solution.

Question: How do I sign extensions I wrote for myself so I can actually use them, without uploading a copy of the extension somewhere? That's my roadblocker right now. I don't know how to migrate make my own extensions work on my own system without uploading them to other people's servers. (Yes, I want Firefox stable. I don't want to run a buggy browser.)

Post by Brakenshire » Sun, Sep 23, 2018, 10:50 PM UTC

arthurrichards wrote: post #63

I use firefox and have an addon to specifically erase my google cookies when I close the browser. I don't see a problem with this new chrome feature. Ive seen users logging into eachothers browser gmail, maybe google is democratizing the info they collect so everyone can access it? :) Ill point to this again https://youbroketheinternet.org/trackedanyway