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Hilariously the thing that got me to go back to @firefox was Google making adblocking suck on chromium based browsers and trying to force their (repeatedly) spy-ware fill (hachyderm.io)

submitted 1 year ago by angermcs@hachyderm.io to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

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Hilariously the thing that got me to go back to @firefox was Google making adblocking suck on chromium based browsers and trying to force their (repeatedly) spy-ware filled ads (particularly on youtube) to be displayed. Like you spent how many billions trying to make chrome "the thing" and now you are destroying any goodwill.

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[–] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 55 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hilariously? I feel like over half the current FF users are using it for the same reason as you.

Fuck Google

[–] President_Pyrus@feddit.dk 10 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I only made the switch 3 months ago for this reason. I don't see how it is hilarious either.

[–] totallynotarobot@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why is this "hilariously"? Isn't that like...the whole point?

[–] angermcs@hachyderm.io 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@totallynotarobot Google's point w/ the adblocking changes was to drive everyone back to Firefox? Away from the browser they've spent billions on?

[–] iopq@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, they know nobody but the tech savvy people care. I just saw someone watch a YouTube ad on their phone in real life

[–] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

I know it's close to Halloween but please use a spoiler tag or a trigger warning if you're going to tell us such a terrifying story

[–] velox_vulnus@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I guess people are not a fan of how it looks by default. Me, I just use a gtk4 skin to make it look like epiphany.

[–] Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How is your experience with the gtk4 skin? I've used it for a bit around the time the switch to libadwaita happened, but for me the default firefox skin is better.

[–] Orbituary@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Who cares about looks? Function over form always. (edited)

[–] Sheeple@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think you got the saying backwards

[–] Orbituary@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Whoops

[–] Grant_M@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Greedy Google billionaires think going to war against the people of earth is a good idea. I welcome this fight :)

[–] dadaredone@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Most of the people are dumb asf tho ;(

[–] Faydaikin@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

Just means we're on equal footing with google. Let the chaos commence!

[–] yote_zip@pawb.social 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Does anyone know when the Manifest V3 transition is actually going to happen in Chrom* browsers? It seems like they've been trying to get this to land for 4-5 years at this point and the only thing I can find are timelines that have been invalidated.

[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 year ago

Every time they get close to a release some minor ruling in an European country shows that they won’t be legal and they have to start over from scratch /s

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 7 points 1 year ago

The public still uses Chrome so it worked... :/