• Voxel@feddit.uk
      16 days

      Some people can’t tell the difference between a search engine and a browser. Some people don’t know how to install software, and use whatever they got. Some people don’t know better.

      Them losing access to a tool like uBlock Origin, with the only alternatives being weaker options, is harmful.

      I know of people experiencing blockage because they use uBOL, uBO was more effective at bypassing those blocks I assume.

    • akilou@sh.itjust.works
      16 days

      The number of people I see just drowning in ads is ridiculous. They’re not using uBlock anyway. I don’t know how they put up with it.

      • grandel@lemmy.ml
        16 days

        They are brainwashed! I asked my wife if she wants me to remove the ads on her laptop. She refused. She wants to see them.

        I genuinely can not comprehend it.

        • magnue@lemmy.world
          16 days

          Some people just don’t like to tinker. They just accept the situation and live with it. For them the tinkering is a bigger headache than the ads.

  • Lonk@lemmy.ml
    16 days

    Still surprised there are so many people using Chrome.

    They’re this generations grannies who were stubborn about using Internet Explorer.

    • encelado748@feddit.org
      15 days

      There are only chrome, Firefox and safari. All other browsers are derivative of the one above. Chrome is objectively the best from the technical prospective: better support for web technologies, more stable, and better performance. This is not the same as IE that was actually a bad browser.

      You either choose a derivative of chrome with better interface and privacy default (vivaldi?), a derivative of Firefox if you care about open web (librewolf?) or a derivative of safari if you have macOS (orion?). But it is still one of those 3, and if google kill manifest v2 then manifest v2 is killed for all derivatives.

      • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        15 days

        better support for nonstandard web technologies

        fixed that for you

        more stable

        what?

        and better performance

        yes it is a known fact that google sites including youtube are engineered to be slower on firefox.

        • encelado748@feddit.org
          15 days

          fixed that for you

          CSS scroll drive animation (standard), Cross document view transitions (standard), CSS corner shape, Multicol Level 2 (standard), some of the Filesystem Access API, WebGPU on linux, PWA manifest install (standard), took 3 years to ship documentPictureInPicture.

          Facts are facts. Web standard are implemented first in chromium, then in firefox after years.

          what?

          Chromium based browser have strict multiprocess isolation. This is not true for firefox. If a tab crashes chrome it does not crash the entire browser. This is only partially true for firefox

          yes it is a known fact that google sites including youtube are engineered to be slower on firefox.

          Yes, and if you check browser performance on a neutral benchmark like speedometer 3.1 chrome is still faster. Also this is a fact.

          Chromium is an objectively slightly better browser on paper than Firefox. Firefox is a much better browser for your privacy, for open source development and the health of the web in general.

  • solrize@lemmy.ml
    16 days

    I remember the junkbuster proxy from before this stuff was done with browser extensions. Is it time for that approach to make a comeback?

    • grue@lemmy.world
      16 days

      No, it’s time for people to finally get their asses in gear and fucking ditch Chromium-based browsers for Firefox-based ones.