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Chrome will block one of its biggest ad blockers
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At this point if you use Chrome I think there is something wrong with you.
Every now and then a website doesn't work on Firefox.
For me, my default browser is LibreWolf with several privacy hardening extensions, but if I do come across a website that fails, my usual route goes LibreWolf > Firefox > Ungoogled Chromium
If it doesn't work beyond that then I just won't use the website.
I have that problem too but I find using a Chromium-based browser is the solution. I doubt you actually need to use Chrome for these websites you're having problems with.
i mostly use a vivaldi or opera portable for those. unzip, run, use the temperamental site, close, delete directory. it's not very often that i have to do this.
but for a couple of pesky sites i do frequent a bit more often, i keep their portable browsers to reuse and have them configured (including addons) specifically for them.
well, there's a lot wrong with me. but the only reason I use chrome is because when my last windows machine took a shit, I couldn't afford a new PC so I grabbed a chromebook for $130CAD and I was seriously impressed with how easy and fast it was to use. that was 4 years ago, and now I'm just waiting for google's hammer to drop so I can switch back to windows.
a chromebook isn't without its charms, there are features that just make sense to me that are non-existent on windows: for example, you can increase the size of everything on your screen with two fingers on your touchpad. expand to make larger, pinch to shrink it down. seems like a no-brainer for any OS, but windows lacks this feature. and when you're old af and your eyesight is for shit, this is an extremely useful tool to have available.
but if I can't block ads then it's meaningless. there are no redeeming features that could ever outweigh adblock capabilities. once that happens, I'm gone and I'll never go back to chrome. they can go fuck themselves to death if they're gonna take away UO
I'm (unfortunately for reasons) running Win11 on a Surface Pro 7 with keyboard, and pinch/pull to zoom works fine in Firefox and Vivaldi, which are the only apps I use the feature on. It produces funky behavior in Explorer and usually does nothing elsewhere.
Is it universally functional in Windows? No. Is it implemented at the OS level? Absolutely.