This is your hourly reminder that Brave is still Chromium and still contributes to Google’s influence over internet standards.
Iirc Firefox and I think Safari are the only major non-chromium browsers. It makes me so sad because I remember Google’s “don’t be evil” days… man they left that behind
Safari already has attestation, has for a while, so while its at least a different browser, it’s still part of the problem.
they’ve lived long enough to become the bad guys
Will Vivaldi still block ads, even though it’s on chromium?
What’s the advantage for google of doing this move? People “savy” enough to install an adblock (or even know that it exists) is most likely to switch to a competitor that allows for adblocking
Majority will keep using, for a while, until years later more see what has happened and move.
Mean while profits on marketing go up.
Mhm, I see that point, although I find it concerning given that the quality of the UX platforms like youtube has kept a consistent decline over the past decade. It feels like google keeps amassing more and more reasons for people to enable adblockers but I also understand youtube needs to be a profitable business and at some point you need to show ads
True, these are the challenges of freeware, ads are required unless you pay or become a pirate.
Youtubers/social media now mostly have promotions within videos, so we went back to how cable functions.
Thoughts on Social media/Rumble/twitter and other video platforms will evolve over time?
I think Alphabet (Google) will keep doing things that make people leave there other platforms, youtube will take a while so changes will be more gradual.
As a small note, in an unexpected turn of events, that “sponsor block” extension popped up also blocking promotions, I find it incredibly amazing that blocking ads can even go that further
I can’t put my finger on it, but somehow I feel like youtube is irreplaceable, I don’t say this out of some internet patriotism, I just think the initial momentum of inertia really has to be massive to make it budge, while with fediverse-stuff you can gradually generate content and maybe some people will be attracted (?)
And twitter’s trajectory is to fucking weird and unpredictable right now that I just have no clue 🙃🙃🙃
Seriously. I’ll be a redditor here, but that’s my “migrate-to-another service moment”. If I’m not able to whitelist the sites that provide a reasonable ad experience and block ads on those that dont, then I’m moving to a different browser and password saving environment.
Firefox and Bitwarden is the way to go Or even Mullvad Browser instead of Firefox. Its basically Firefox but already shipped with all the right configs and addons.
Firefox Mobile is great, Being able to add extensions is just wonderful.
Honestly I cant live without UBlock Origin after using it for so long. The modern web is so horrible with ads
Try branch -u origin/main /s
The available extensions are limited, but tampermonkey gives you access to lots of custom extension opportunities, I use it to make Twitter bearable.
They just announced that all extensions will be available for Firefox Mobile by the end of the year.
Didn’t they say that any dev is able to port them to mobile?
You wish that was happening.
I’m preparing to be completely unsurprised that Firefox’s market share will still be at 3% next month and the month after that.
So I switched to Firefox for privacy reasons but fuck if it isn’t buggy as hell on my old phone. I’m keeping it, but it’s a huge reduction in usability compared to Chrome.
I use Firefox exclusively on both android and my PC. And have no idea what you’re talking about. Are you also on android? What’s been buggy in your experience?
Not the person you’re replying to but I sometimes have issues with PWAs not loading when I open them and then I have to close it and re-open to get it to load
That’s the only major issue I have and I find the ability to use ad blockers as well as the nice reading mode to make my overall mobile browsing experience leagues better than with Chrome
i have thos too and i have no idea bow or why it happens but its bothering me alot
If they didn’t already, they probably never will.
When ads pop up it might shift
I just switched fron opera gx to Firefox. Has Firefox an integrated vpn?
Search in extensions
Oh right thats right I forgot about those. Thank you
I don’t know, but Mozilla (the org that makes Firefox) also makes a VPN, and you can set it to apply to Firefox only.
Thats cool, thank you
I hate to be a pessimist but if people hate Musk as much as they seem to, but can’t leave twitter,
or post “Fuck Spez” thousands of times, but won’t leave reddit,
I’m cautious about how much of an exodous I expect to see from chrome.
I think its time we face the fact that most people will trade almost anything for convenience.
If Internet Explorer managed to fall from 96% market share to complete irrelevance, Chrome is not immortal either.
Times have changed. The userbase that dropped IE was a vastly different one. With the internet being more accessible and more alluring to the massed (i.e. because of social media) convenience is king.
