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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.
Why are people on HN still using Chrome? (or Edge, or Opera…)
In what way? I've never noticed a difference.
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All users should demand privacy, but they don’t. Take a look at Firefox’s market share, or Brave’s etc.
Won’t Brave follow Google’s lead on this? Gecko, WebKit and—hopefully—Ladybird are the true alternatives. I used to think this was too extreme. But the ad vendor dragging ad blockers out of the engine flipped my view.
They said they could offer limited MV2 support even after it’s fully removed from the upstream Chromium codebase.[1]
Why are people on HN still using Chrome? (or Edge, or Opera…)
It’s a bit like with Internet Explorer which back in its day was also needed for some stubborn sites.
Why are people on HN still using Chrome? (or Edge, or Opera…)
For me the two reasons I can't live without are 1. Firefox's ctrl-f search doesn't highlight all instances of a found item on the right hand side. It sounds petty, but its a gigantic timesaver for looking through research documents 2. Firefox's tab crash recovery isn't as solid. I use chrome with fully persistent tabs, and its a gigantic pain if I can't re-open them If I could find a way to fix these I'd swap in a he…
Surprised they still have this page on their site: > https://about.google/company-info/philosophy/ > 1. Focus on the user and all else will follow. > 6. You can make money without doing evil.
You can but well, it's more profitable the other way around....
AdGuard MV3 works fine. Still switch to FF if you can, more diversity in the ecosystem benefits everyone.