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The Enshittification Train
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STOP👏👏USING👏👏CHROMEIUM👏👏BASED👏👏BROWSERS
Screaming that on lemmy is like running into a church and screaming about the "Wiles of satan"
You are literally preaching to the choir
There is degoogled chromium for pcs. I dont mean brave. I mean literally "degoogled chromium"
i use it for when certain web apps refuse to work on firefox or librewolf
What's wrong with chromium based browsers? Just curious. What about Vivaldi?
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Damn, if only someone, anyone, had ever warned against using Chrome.
The people willingly using a Google browser get what they get. This is a shining example of personal accountability.
most people are not aware of google’s shenanigans, and even less are aware that there are better alternatives
why not help people discover these alternatives instead of being an asshole?
Most people refuse to use these alternatives. Atleast in my cases.
People use the tools they have to get their tasks done. Not everyone wants to have the same weird hobbies we do.
People think Chrome is «the Internet».
Why the fuck is anyone still using chrome? Or windows for that matter. If it’s a work computer, whatever, I get it, but get that shit off of your personal devices.
To be fair, some sites/things don’t work with Firefox, and keeping up with Chromium derivatives is a difficult task.
Hence most default to Brave. They got the SEO. They got the marketing money and socials hype.
You have to dig deep into the internet to find Helium, Vivaldi, Cromite, Ungoogled Chromium, or whatever the fork de jure is. And that’s if you miss all the scamware.
Sounds like a "them" problem, if it does not work in whatever Firefox fork ill find an alternative website.
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Awe dang. I have a theory that the more we push away their data centers they will recoup it one cpu\gpu at a time at the user-end. This is testing that feasibility.
It's your laptop? You need to try not installing chrome on your own devices.
Oddly enough, Firefox never clicked for me but librewolf is dope.
The only browser I use for Lemmy
Still got firefox, mainly for making sense of youtube's garbage UI with my tangled cable of extensions whenever I happen to boot that shit up lol
use invidious for youtube
Linux+grapheneOS to remove those spywares
Why Linux + graphene instead of Linux + GNU?
Because Java runs everywhere
Let's say I tried to show this to my brother in an attempt to make the boy degoogle and he went "Nah, I'm not a gigabite hoarder, they can have the 4 gigas."
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i never used Chrome(only Chromium) in years, i heard about this and its insane.
But don't worry, the model isn't used for any browser features users actually use, so it's just Google wasting petabytes of bandwidth to service a fraction of a percent of its userbase.
If not chrome, what is a good browser to use nowadays? I like Firefox but the last year I keep bumping in to websites that don't work so we'll on Firefox. Mostly web apps. So then what is left?
I stay away from sites and services that don't work well on Firefox. Firefox complies with open web standards, if a site doesn't run well on Firefox it implies that the operator is doing something fucky that you'd probably not be OK with.
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Firefox has been fine. I've thought about switching to one of the cooler forks but I haven't gotten off my ass yet.
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