Can someone remind me why we stopped using Firefox a while back? There was some piece of news that broke everyone’s trust, but I can’t remember what Mozilla did. Was it a change in their user agreement?

  • RejZoR@lemmy.ml
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    14 hours ago

    The thing is, I never have. Chrome is absolute hot garbage and spyware, all the Chromium forks are all flawed and bugged and still feed into Google’s dominance because of engine and stupid Manifest bullshit. Firefox, despite all the stupid things Mozilla did and still does just works the best and is not Chromium.

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      10 hours ago

      Honestly, as a “non-power” Firefox user, the only issues I’m experiencing is when Google purposely slows down or messes with me simply because I use Firefox (e.g., YouTube).

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        10 hours ago

        Dunno, Youtube works fine for me, watching without account. I don’t use anything else from Google, so can’t say if anything else is shit.

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        9 hours ago

        Google sells it as an updated extension framework to improve security, privacy, and performance of extensions… But it also nerfs adblockers ability to block all ads.

        There are some forks from chrome that haven’t implemented the new manifest thing. So if you really need to, look for those.

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        12 hours ago

        New Chromium framework for browser extensions that severely limits their functionality. It neuters adlockers.

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          11 hours ago

          It was intentional to block/break adblockers. Google is worlds largest advertiser…

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          12 hours ago

          It didn’t break adblockers “at the time”. It broke them intentionally. That was by design. Google is an advertising company dabbling in other areas. They don’t want a browser that can properly block their primary revenue.

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          12 hours ago

          Understood, that’s something to be expected by Google, but complete shit.

          However, adblockers still work these days - see Vivaldi, so they found a workaround?

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            11 hours ago

            There is no workaround as most browsers download extensions from Google’s extension repository and they don’t allow extensions that don’t follow their bullshit manifest. Ironically, only Opera has its own extensions repository/store that can do that. Others rely on their own built in adblockers.