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There has to be google engineers here. Does this just fall on deaf ears? I realize it’s a massive corp but imagine high ranking staff have a say and input. Maybe they don’t and Sundar isn’t worried about that. Or they do a simple cost analysis and short-term they see the benefit and are willing to to risk long term erosion that maybe be minimal. Weird returning to Firefox, but I did and there is nothing in chrome I m…
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Yeah plus Brave on iPhone auto blocks ads. No extensions or configuration needed. Not sure if Firefox does that.
No, and it shouldn't. Firefox is a general purpose browser, so it should display web pages as the author intends. Security/anti-malware is expected, but changes in content are outside its scope. That's what extensions are for. If you're installing Brave or Opera, you're not interested in a general purpose browser. Adblock is part of their advertised feature set.
My point is, this is a No True Scotsman fallacy.
Wipr for the win, Chrome nevermore.
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I recently made Safari my default browser for this reason. If Firefox’s days are numbered, I figured I’d get ahead of it than be forced. Ublock origin isn’t available for safari, but I was able to use the same content blocker that I use on iOS and it seems to be doing the job.
Why not just use firefox and ublock origin while it works instead of a sub par experience just because you decided to impose it on yourself?
Which is why personally I'll probably stick with FF until the bitter end.
I just hope that Moz/FF can pull a rabbit out of the hat, because (imo) atm things ain't looking good for the long term future.
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I recently made Safari my default browser for this reason. If Firefox’s days are numbered, I figured I’d get ahead of it than be forced. Ublock origin isn’t available for safari, but I was able to use the same content blocker that I use on iOS and it seems to be doing the job.
Why not just use firefox and ublock origin while it works instead of a sub par experience just because you decided to impose it on yourself?
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You don't have to ditch YouTube to avoid annoying commercial breaks. Any decent ad-blocker will skip the ads in YouTube videos, or you can even use an alternative viewer like SmartTube.
Or pay for it and support the people who's content you're watching and the company who's infrastructure is providing it.
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You don't have to ditch YouTube to avoid annoying commercial breaks. Any decent ad-blocker will skip the ads in YouTube videos, or you can even use an alternative viewer like SmartTube.
Or pay for it and support the people who's content you're watching and the company who's infrastructure is providing it.
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You don't have to use the crypto features.
when the defense of a project is that you can turn off the bad features, you aren't really making a chase better than say chrome or anything else. A product built on trust, shouldn't involve having to go turn off untrustworthy elements.
> A product built on trust, shouldn't involve having to go turn off untrustworthy elements.
This is very misleading! You don't "turn off" bad features in Brave. You have to explicitly turn them on. By default it's off.
Just like how you don't have to visit dodgy sites in Chrome; you have to take action to visit dodgy sites.
Same with Brave - you don't have to do any crypto stuff; you have to put in extra work and effort to do the crypto stuff.
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Brave has committed to do what they can as long as they can. But unsure how long and what that really turns out to be. https://brave.com/blog/brave-shields-manifest-v3/
That is easy talking from Brave as long as it is still a config flag, then after a compile-time flag. Once the internal APIs for MV2 or where MV2 get removed or changed it becomes very difficult to maintain. Never mind the possible security issues you introduce, but won’t get so quickly discovered, because Brave is a smaller target.