The "Manifest V3" rollout is back after letting tensions cool for a year.
    • @SkyNTP@lemmy.mlEnglish
      3•1 year ago

      I know you are being sarcastic, but it’s not sarcasm at all, and therefore no laughing matter, when more and more websites drop support for none-chromium browsers, or actively block them. Netizens tend to have some missguided belief that every problem can be solved with software alone. This is a trap.

    • @OfficerBribe@lemm.eeEnglish
      2•1 year ago

      This impacts all Chromium based browsers. Unless support is maintained separately by browser vendor, only other option is Firefox or any of its forks.

      This is kind of a time for Mozilla to shine, but I worry they will mess up and maybe even follow later.

  • @Species8472@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    5•1 year ago

    On mobile I’m using DDG as primary browser. Firefox as secondary.

    On my personal machine it’s Firefox and Chromium.

    For my job I use Thorium as main (switched coming from Brave), Chrome, Firefox and Edge.

    Could do without Chrome any day.

    • @PurpleTentacle@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6•1 year ago

      On mobile I’m using DDG as primary browser.

      Don’t get me wrong, DDG’s app is a massive step up in privacy, but it’s hardly a browser, it’s simply a WebView frontend. You’re pretty much still using Chrome.

  • @Mandy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    7•1 year ago

    I wonder if there ever will be a point where the mayor populous actually goes “screw this” and starts finding out how to change their browser via “how to change internet” or “how to change google”

    will there ever be a point where this even happens i wonder, like at all

  • @MyDogLovesMe@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    30•1 year ago

    I’d be very curious how they are going to try and fuck over Firefox, or similar browsers.

    It’s not “just business “, it’s personal. It’s all personal, Mike. You know who I learned that from? Your Father, the Godfather.

    • @PurpleTentacle@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13•1 year ago

      Google’s proposed “Web Integrity API” browser-DRM was probably the biggest attack on the open web since its conception. I don’t think they have fully given up on that idea and they’ll likely sneak it in more gradually and slowly. Manifest v3 is just a small baby step in this direction of taking away user control.

    • @Dicska@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9•1 year ago

      The various websites will just say Firefox is “not supported”. I just wrote this in another comment, but Twitch doesn’t let you log in on FF because it has some kind of advanced tracking protection. I guess YouTube and the rest will just join the fuckery and block you from using their content if you’re on FF. I mean, I really hope they won’t do that, but knowing what degree of assholery these companies can pull off, I think it’s the next step.

      • ka-chowEnglish
        4•1 year ago

        I used to have that issue with Twitch and FF, the fix was to create a new Firefox profile :)

      • @Im14abeer@midwest.socialEnglish
        9•1 year ago

        Presumably the FTC will have something to say about blatant anticompetitive actions such at these. Then again, that’s why corporations buy themselves representatives, senators and judges.

        Edit: such not suck

    • @TangledHyphae@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      4•1 year ago

      If you mean Manifest V3 (MV3) then yeah it’s been on the table for a while, they had to make additional APIs for other extension developers because of how restrictive it was to begin with. The question is how many APIs are they going to develop without inadvertently allowing more adblock extensions? It’s a tough problem for them it seems.

  • BarbecueCowboy
    3•1 year ago

    I know Firefox is the popular option here, but do we have any serious non-google managed Chromium based browser options out there that don’t have some weird gimmick?

      • @Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyiEnglish
        3•1 year ago

        +1 for Vivaldi. If you remember old, Presto-era Opera you’ll feel right at home with it. I know there are some people who moved from Firefox to it, too.

        Only thing is, their integrated adblocker doesn’t support cosmetic filtering right now, but it’s in the works.

        • 📛MavenEnglish
          1•1 year ago

          Another for Vivaldi. Technically it has a “gimmick” but that gimmick is having a very customizable UI. If you don’t want that, just don’t use it.

          You will need to install ublock though, since its onboard adblock isn’t great.

          • @dvdnet89@lemmy.todayEnglish
            1•1 year ago

            the thing that I like from Vivaldi is the design is quite classic and consistent between Windows/SteamOS/Ubuntu.

    • Infiltrated_ad8271
      5•1 year ago

      Brave leads chrome-based browsers in terms of privacy and security, as long as you don’t mind its endless controversies.

  • @moonburster@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1•1 year ago

    I’ve switched from reddit to Lemmy, from windows to Linux and just as easy as my devices are running Firefox. I was balls deep in Google, they keep on pushing me away

    • @TangledHyphae@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1•1 year ago

      Same here, man, same here. EndeavourOS + Firefox + Privacy Badger + uBlock origin + User agent switcher/manager + VPN is my favorite recipe so far.

  • @agent_flounder@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13•1 year ago

    Not surprising since Google is an ad company. I

    Meanwhile I have been using Firefox on my various computers for a few years now.

  • @ARk@lemm.eeEnglish
    14•1 year ago

    Congratulations, you are being tailored a “personal experience”! Please do not resist.

    • @Destraight@lemm.eeEnglish
      -7•1 year ago

      Cool, you gonna help me swap over the more than 100 online accounts from various website that I set up with using my Google email account to a different email account? Because if I am switching to firefox I will also be getting rid of my google email account.

      • @stevedidwhat_infosec@infosec.pubEnglish
        6•1 year ago

        I’m confused are you mad at Firefox because you put all your eggs into one basket?

        Single point of failure too… if someone for whatever magic reason got access to your account you’d be capital Fucked

    • @Bogasse@lemmy.mlEnglish
      8•1 year ago

      Well at this period of time one of the interns will have removed Firefox’s user agent from the whitelist most Google services by mistake again.

      If so, I just hope antitrust lawsuits will be fast enough so that it doesn’t build up a bad reputation for Firefox …

  • Lemmington BunnieEnglish
    4•1 year ago

    I’m only using Chrome for work because the profile switching & syncing is so much smoother and our company is split into two primary brands - my brain handles it better with an individual browser profile for each.

    We’re consolidating everything into one next year, meaning I can ditch the second browser!

    I’ve tried setting up a second profile but it was just too much effort to get it working and bring everything across from both, then do the same on my laptop for travel, so I’ll just wait for now.