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I hope people can get a "Stop Using Chrome" movement going, like we did with Internet Explorer long ago.
For all the hate it got, IE was nowhere near as privacy-invasive as any of the "modern" browsers now, even Firefox. If you configured it to open with a blank page, it would quietly do so and make zero unsolicited network requests.
What is the alternative to chrome that doesn’t crash or is not noticeably slower?
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A media outlet which depends on ad revenue as a primary income source is unlikely to suggest this. Ditching these deeply invasive products remains a good idea, independent on any decision to use ad blockers or not. The Meta/Yandex incident in particular is straight-up malware and everyone should remove their apps.
> which depends on ad revenue They're more tightly bound than that. They're dependent on Google Display Ads. Which really makes their whole diatribe that much more pathetic. Any media company that decided to traffic the ads themselves, from their own servers, and inline with their own content, would effectively be immune from ad blocking. > Ditching these deeply invasive products remains a good idea While still allow…
Lol, why are you commenting as if somehow allowing it to run negates the other good ideas in some way? Obviously some is better than none, and all is better than some, but each step takes more effort.
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> Source article Thx. Even the source in the slashdot article links to msn...
Written by the same person who wrote Washington Post article. All very confusing.
No idea what kind of deal these places have with Microsoft.
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Did you try finding a print button?
To… save? I get that you can print to a file and it’ll save it that way of course, but damn that strikes me as really confusing for non-techies
What is the alternative to chrome that doesn’t crash or is not noticeably slower?
Web browsers should become outmoded soon. It was fine for bootstrapping the web, but now to keep up a browser must emulate the operating system and more in a single app. This pressure is the centralizing factor in browser dominance. Ditch the features, drop the spy protocol (http), just get the files.
What is the alternative to chrome that doesn’t crash or is not noticeably slower?
I really like Brave, blocks youtube ads and generally just works where other chrome alternatives don't https://brave.com/download/