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[-] kandoh@reddthat.com 23 points 1 day ago
[-] ripcord@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

It is 100000% a reason to split Chrome and the ad sales part of Google into different companies.

It won't solve the problem but the pressures end up being orders of magnitude different.

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[-] FreddyNO@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago

Didn't consider chrome before and still wont

[-] libra00@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

Yeah, I heard someone say a week or so ago that they straight disabled it in the browser, and now only the gimped version that works with Manifest V3 works now. Thankfully I switched to Firefox when all this Manifest V3 stuff was announced. As far as I know it's the only browser out there that isn't based on Chromium (which Google also controls, so browsers like Brave will likely be affected by this soon as well, unless a bunch of those smaller browsers get together and fork Chromium and maintain it themselves, which I'm not very hopeful about) and so doesn't have to worry about these shenanigans.

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[-] kane@femboys.biz 7 points 1 day ago

I stayed away from Chrome alternatives, as it had the best Canvas/HTML5 performance (Which oddly enough, was quite important for most of my browsing needs). However, this news means I will have to switch. Installed Firefox for my primary browsing needs, and a few Chromium-based ones to try out for specifically the aforementioned use case.

Chrome hasn't been my main browser in a while but I kept it as a backup and because Firefox doesn't support PWAs and I didn't want to mess with the extension. Turns out, the extension only takes about 3 minutes to get set up and now Chrome has been uninstalled. And on a random Tuesday, who knew?

[-] doc@fedia.io 2 points 21 hours ago

I'm browsing via FF (fork) + Android + PWA right now. No extensions. ?

[-] DeadButGonnaMakeIt@sh.itjust.works 1 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

I don't use the fork (I'm still learning what that even means). I mostly use PWAs on my desktop and my understanding is that regular FF doesn't have native support for PWAs so you have to use an extension plus a couple other things to make it work.

It seems fine on android though, but the "app" really just opens the URL in the browser, it's not like how Chrome was. NBD though.

[-] thisphuckinguy@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

That’s fine. Google can go fuck themselves

[-] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

🎵So long, farewell, Auf Wiedersehen, goodbye.🎵

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