For anyone who thinks they're "stuck" with chrome, Firefox has gotten it's shit together massively in the last few years.
Which is why Google's next step is to effectively require chromium browsers for any websites wanting access to Google services and products.
Feels bad but I can't condone this behaviour anymore and I feel ashamed that I haven't seen the greed Google is capable of doing.
In the coming months I will do my best to migrate away from the Google system, even if I end up paying a tad more, maybe just in time to set up a home server for photos.
Sounds like a good reason to stop using Google services and products. Some examples (note, I haven't used some of these yet):
Search - DuckDuckGo
Email - ProtonMail
Drive - Dropbox
Sheets/Docs - Zoho
Some of these examples may not the best for everyone, but my point is that we do not have to let Google continue to push us around.
No, it sounds like a good reason for anti-trust regulators to make an injunction to stop Google from doing it.
It's time for this fantasy bullshit notion that boycotts are worth a damn to end. In reality, it's nothing but pro-corporate propaganda designed to make people think they're "fighting the man" or whatever when they're actually completely ineffective.
Now, don't get me wrong: by all means, please feel free to quit using Google's shit! That's 100% a good thing and I fully encourage it! Just don't delude yourself into thinking it represents even the slightest shred of a solution to the systemic problem Google's anticompetitive strategies represent.
Sorry, our hyper partisan system has all but crippled regulation.
I dont understand when people think Firefox didn't have their shit together. Been using it since 2006 and never had an issue. Ya'll must be doing some serious browsing.
Now you can use desktop extensions on firefox mobile. They stepped up big time.
it baffles me that people are still using Google Chrome.
Most people don't use an ad blocker and most people don't even know this drama exists.
Which makes it weirder why take a grudge against us.
Firefox FTW
UBlock Origin is fire
Honestly just shocked how well Adblockalypse rolls off the tongue despite being the linguistic equivalent of three kids in a trench coat
This is just more of the same. Every time some company thinks they've thrown enough money at the problem to DRM their way to success, somebody inevitably finds a fix, workaround, or bypass. Sometimes within a single day.
I stopped using chrome as my primary browser years ago, and everyone should do the same.
Users when company who makes billions in profit off of ads modifies their browser to forcefully show more ads: 🤯😟
Stopped even looking at chrome since yrs. If they force their services even via chrome based browsers, I will dump their offerings as much as possible.
As long as this doesn't impact Firefox, I don't care...
The problem is they have the lion’s share of users, so they can force websites to adhere to their policies and those sites will stop working in FF.
The issue beyond them trying to change chromium to not have it but they are trying to make it so part of websites have the "security" built in as well
Kiss my sexy Klingon ass, Google. I will forever battle ads.
Laughs in Firefox. (Specifically FireDragon)
Edit: Since there was some confusion in the comments about what FireDragon is, I will explain it here. FireDragon is the default browser on Garuda Linux. FireDragon is a fork of Librewolf, which is in-turn a fork of Firefox. Librewolf's main goal is to provide the most privacy possible to its user, though it might be at the cost of some sites breaking. FireDragon is a fork of Librewolf, it reduces some of the privacy settings that Librewolf uses, in order for sites to not break, but while still retaining most of the privacy features. dr460nf1r3 the developer of FireDragon said "This fork ships saner defaults to also include regular (not paranoid 😋) users of Garuda Linux in its audience" [1] Paragraph 2, Line 6
FireDragon from my perspective is focused around Garuda Linux, so a lot of its features are designed for users of Garuda Linux in mind.
More information about FireDragon can be found here: https://forum.garudalinux.org/t/firedragon-librewolf-fork/5018, here: https://github.com/dr460nf1r3/firedragon-browser, and here: https://dr460nf1r3.org/projects/firedragon/
More Information about Librewolf can be found here: https://librewolf.net/
More Information about Garuda Linux can be found here: https://garudalinux.org/
Don't worry I'll stop using AdBlock in Chrome.
Don't worry, I'll stop using chrome
Correction: The adblockalypse is coming for people still using chromium
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