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And then you realize all the web sites are optimized for chrome and you have problems using other browsers
google maps is the only site that just didn't work
Chromium team has not commented on this bug with 650+ stars (within top 10 https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/list?sort=-stars... issues) in months
As a proxy extension developer, this is absolutely maddening. We're forced to choose between auth-less open proxies (bad), or baking in a wacky authentication scheme through a side channel (also bad). MV3 drops in 2.5 months, and will leave tens of millions of proxy extension users unable to use products they paid money for. This is all on top of the many other issues with MV3 that Google is pushing under the guise o…
Have any of the Chromium forks committed to maintain MV2 into the future? Having functioning extensions while maintaining the other features that people like from the browser could help pull some marketshare from Google Chrome. Probably just dreaming though...
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If there is one group of people I will never feel bad for, it's the VPN / proxy vendors. They've been doing false advertising for years on every channel, making consumers pay for absolutely useless products.
There are many legitimate use cases of VPN's. Also there are many VPN companies that don't do false advertising such as Windscribe, mullvad or iVPN.
Yes of course, but that probably represents less than 10% of the customers (I'm being extremely generous on purpose, it's probably 0.1%) of your usual NordVPN and co.
> don't do false advertising such as Windscribe
"Stop tracking and browse privately" and "block annoying advertisers from stalking you online" proves you wrong. VPNs don't stop trackers.
> don't do false advertising such as Mullvad
"Evade hackers and trackers". Sure.
> don't do false advertising such as iVPN
Hey looks good actually, they indeed don't claim to block trackers or anything else, just change your IP / geolocation.
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It's cases such as these invalidate the "they're not acting with malice". Thousands of google employees see this stuff, and are clearly being told they can't talk about it.
You haven't applied Hanlon's Razor properly. They're just coordinating incompetence that they find beneficial, not being malicious.
Can someone ELI5 what are proxy extensions? What are they supposed to do?
The proxy we all use at work is SwitchyOmega. Been using it for years and it's fantastic.
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Someone warned years ago that proxy extensions would no longer be feasible on Chromium? I must have missed that message.
I'm more interested why it isn't possible to just fork the thing and maintain a version that's plugin enabled. Isn't Chromium completely open source? Especially for Brave, Vivaldi, Opera, etc.
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There are many legitimate use cases of VPN's. Also there are many VPN companies that don't do false advertising such as Windscribe, mullvad or iVPN.
> There are many legitimate use cases of VPN's Yes of course, but that probably represents less than 10% of the customers (I'm being extremely generous on purpose, it's probably 0.1%) of your usual NordVPN and co. > don't do false advertising such as Windscribe "Stop tracking and browse privately" and "block annoying advertisers from stalking you online" proves you wrong. VPNs don't stop trackers. > don't do false ad…
Lol how did you come up with 10%? Did you just make it up?
> VPNs don't stop trackers.
Windscribe (and other VPN's) can block trackers. https://blog.windscribe.com/how-r-o-b-e-r-t-works-76d6274460...
If it catches on (and it could since it'd be free and fast), maybe some big sites would evolve to advertise themselves as 'virtous'.
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I'm more interested why it isn't possible to just fork the thing and maintain a version that's plugin enabled. Isn't Chromium completely open source? Especially for Brave, Vivaldi, Opera, etc.
>Isn't Chromium completely open source? No, especially not if you want to watch videos, the DRM plugin is a binary blob that only Google approved browsers get to run. Then there are all the Google services that will break in unexpected ways in your browser, sometimes just because your user agent isn't identical to Chromes if past reports from Firefox users are any indication. Basically expect to be shit on by the big…