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It is essential to stop using Chrome. Under the pretense of saving users from third-party spyware, Google is creating an ecosystem in which Chrome itself is the spyware. (mastodon.world)

submitted 10 months ago by Live_Let_Live@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Sheeple@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

As a former chrome user it's so real. Chrome connects every device for you and once you ARE in the loop it's hard to leave it. Wanna switch to Firefox? Oops suddenly your authentication doesn't work anymore. Oh what about those useful Google logins tied to everything now? Good luck with that.

It took me huge effort to switch off chromium based browsers because the longer you use chrome, the more it worms it's way into all your services making it harder and harder to switch. I still can't figure out how to seperate my Yahoo account from my Gmail account

A huge reason I left is realising that if google decided I broke their TOS on something like say, YouTube ad blocking, they can just terminate by Google account and every service attached to it suddenly becomes unusable. I'd rather not be taken hostage like that

Edit: for all the wise people in the comments. I was trying to decouple entirely from Google products, not just chrome

[–] ExLisper@linux.community 15 points 10 months ago

What you're describing sounds more like over-reliance on Google services than the browser. I don't use gmail or google logins anywhere, I just have Bitwarder plugin to manage my authentication and use masked emails to create accounts. I did the same in all the different browsers I used over the years and never had any issues with it or with switching between browsers.

[–] hersh@literature.cafe 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Firefox syncs across devices as well, if you sign up for a Firefox account and enable sync. This works for bookmarks, logins, history, and you can even access remote tabs if you want. It's also easy to send a single page from one device to another.

On desktop, Firefox has an import feature that will pull your bookmarks and logins m other browsers (like Chrome) into your Firefox profile.

Even if you're neck-deep in Google services, Chrome doesn't do anything special.

[–] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Even if you’re neck-deep in Google services, Chrome doesn’t do anything special.

Actually, being able to cast to other devices is very easy to do with Chrome, but extremely hard to impossible to do with Firefox, unfortunately.

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

What authentication doesn't work anymore in FF...?

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago

what about those useful Google logins tied to everything now? Good luck with that.

What? You can still use your Google account without Chrome...

Unless you're not talking about OAuth. Is it Chrome's password manager? Because I'm pretty sure that's easily exportable...