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Switch to firefox.
Just wait, there will be “features” that are mandatory on most sites, only supported in chrome.
I usually use a useragent switcher to bypass.
But the teams website for example opens a Microsoft specific browser api so its annoyingly locked to Edge specifically on mobile.
then I won’t be visiting those sites I guess
I’ve dropped websites over less.
So download a user agent switcher and set it to show you as using chrome. This is what i do with firefox and i haven’t run across a site that thinks i’m using firefox.
Is duck duck go browser safe?
This was published last month btw (Oct 15, 2024)
I recently started using Brave Browser and I noticed YouTube ads were starting to seep through randomly. Seems alright no far.
Brave is like Chrome with spyware
Chrome is already spyware on its own. That’s basically the reason Chrome exists.
Two spies, one browser. Very efficient.
Chromium fork. Chromium code, Google defining compatibility standards. Firefox (or it’s forks) is the only real alternative.
Not sure why you are being downvoted just for not realizing about Brave using Chromium. That seems a bit harsh.
Here’s a list of non-Chromium web browsers from August for you or anyone else who might find it helpful.
Brave was astro-turfed by crypto-scammers for way too long to give people suggesting it now the benefit of the doubt.
Google Chrome’s
uBlock Originphaseout has begunChrome is the abblock-block? You might have outblocked me today, but I’ll firefox you away!
🎶 I want to see your adblock-block-block
🎶 Your adblock-block
We got here by using their softslop… only way to kill them is not move on to different merchants.
Gaming 101
pro gamer move
Once this starts affecting me is lonely what will push me to other Crowder’s I’ve never felt the need to leave chrome. I have a lot of Google related services and products so it would be hypocritical of me to draw an arbitrary line at browsers but not the rest, because personally i don’t care about tracking and whatnot cause it’s mostly just to serve targeted ads and I don’t see them for the most part so I don’t care, gimme all your cookies. But if I stay seeing ads again more prominently and there’s no workaround, then I’m out. Moving on.
And you think US government and 5 eyes countries won’t have access? What happens when that elaborate detailed profile data of yours gets hacked?
You are free to choose at any point where you draw the line.
I live in the UK. I’m already watched by cctv in public almost at all times, I’m not bothered by people seeing what I do.
I’m in the UK also. I care about this though.
I frequently forget that chrome is installed on my phone. The only time I’m forced to use it is about once a year when I order Papa John’s Pizza takeout. Their checkout page doesn’t seem to work in any other browser.
It’s so Papa John’s to support only one browser.
I stopped using adblockers and simply set my operating system to use Mullvad’s DNS over HTTPS/TLS. It doesn’t have all the other ublock features, but all ads are blocked in all browsers.
I like nextdns.io
The big problem with DNS-based ad-blocking is that it doesn’t prevent redirects. Sure, you’ll get redirected to a harmless blank page, but then you need to go back to the previous page. You don’t have that issue with uBlock.
Yes, that happens when I click affiliate links. Blank page and then I go back.
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Also doesn’t do cosmetic filtering - like, it would remove the ad, but not the HTML box that used to contain it.
Between Manifest V3 and the Play Integrity API, Google is really trying hard to kill the open internet and android.
It’s totally ok. I’ve phased Chrome out in the beginning of the year already.
I have always used Firefox on all my devices, except for one: the Chromebook I was forced to buy because of compatibility with my college’s test proctoring spyware.
On that device, not only did uBlock Origin quit working the other day, but today Chrome even kept disabling uBlock Lite with the error message that “This extension reloaded itself too frequently”. It could be some kind of legitimate bug, but it sure feels a lot like foul play on Google’s part.
Stopped using that garbage browser a couple of weeks ago. Hardened Firefox ftw. Just using stock Firefox isn’t enough if you’re concerned about your privacy on the internet btw. If all you’re looking for is an ad free experience tho, then stock Firefox should be enough.
Firefox’s future isn’t looking good with all that layoffs and lost money. I am very scared that it might go the way of Opera, and then we will trully have nothing left.
Librefox, Tor, Mullvad browser… etc. I can never have nothing left.
All of those are still standing on Firefox’s shoulders and the actual rendering engine on the browser isn’t really trivial thing to build. Sure, they’re not going away, and likely Firefox will be around too for quite a while, but the world wide web as we currently know it is changing and Google and Microsoft are few of the bigger players pushing the change.
If you’re old enough you’ll remember the banners ‘Best viewed with <this browser> on <that resolution>’, and it’s not too far off from the future we’ll have if the big players get their wishes. Things like google suite, whatever meta is offering and pretty much “the internet” as your Joe Average understands it wants to implement technology where it’s not possible to block ads or modify the content you’re shown in any other way. It’s not too far off from your online banking and other very much real life affecting services start to have boundaries in place where they require certain level of ‘security’ from your browser and you can bet that things which allow content modifying things, like adblocker, doesn’t qualify for the new standards.
On many places it’s already illegal to modify or tamper DRM protected content in any ways (does anyone remember libdvdcss?) and the plan is to include similar (more or less) restrictions to the whole world wide web, which would say that we’ll have things like fediverse who allow browsers like firefox and ‘the rest’ like banking, flight/ticket/hotel/whatever booking sites, big news outlets and so on who only allow the ‘secure’ version of the browser. And that of course has very little to do with actual security, they just want control over your device and what content is fed to you, regardless if you like it or not.
Those are made on Firefox engine. That is made and maintained by the company Mozilla. Which is experiencing those problems.
It’s like those people who say that they don’t use chrome because it’s shit and breaks privacy, they use edge and brave.Firefox is a fully open source browser. Whether or not it fails and goes down doesn’t really matter, as its source code is out there for anyone to use, and build a browser off of it.
It kinda does matter. It’s an enormously complicated project, and it’s possible that nobody will be able to be an ultimate fork if needed.
There’s a crucial difference:
Firefox is open source, Opera isn’t.
LibreWolf is great btw, if you’re to lazy to manually harden Firefox. It also comes with uBlock Origin pre-installed. Also check out their community: !librewolf@lemmy.ml
Yeah, I know.
