• jk1006@feddit.orgEnglish
    19·
    8 hours ago

    I am from Germany and it is just sad how many people use these apps from shit companies without thinking, when suitable alternatives exist everywhere. Just use Firefox, it will work for 99,9% without any flaw. I would love to ditch WhatsApp, but could only convinge a few people to change to Signal. It is as easy as downloading a new app to prevent supporting Meta, but that’s too much effort for many :-(

    • Pixel101a@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      5 hours ago

      People not using Firefox is Mozilla’s fault. Just look at how their mobile browser performs. It’s so much worse than any chromium browser.

  • Zzyzx@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    7·
    8 hours ago

    It’s really annoying to me that Firefox doesn’t seem to work well on my chromebook, so I’m stuck with Chrome until I need a new computer…

  • jam_scot@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    10 hours ago

    I switched to Firefox many years ago, after their announcement I switched to Waterfox and I’m very happy with it.

  • knexcar@lemmy.worldEnglish
    62·
    18 hours ago

    This is probably the single thing that got me to switch to Firefox. Privacy whatever, I don’t care about my data or the morality of my tech company or whatever, but mess with my adblocker and goodbye.

    • TehWorld@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      17 hours ago

      I’m mostly in the same boat. If you really want to know my kink-search-history, I really DGAF. The morality is nice to think about but it’s all about your personal morals in a lot of cases.

    • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
      7·
      17 hours ago

      firefox is going through thier own enshittifcation down the line, they changed ther policy about data recently

      • viking@infosec.pubEnglish
        18·
        15 hours ago

        They changed the phrasing, since in some jurisdictions “sharing anonymized data with partners” can apparently be interpreted as a sale of data, if they get something in return, even if it’s not a fiscal payment.

        But after the outrage that sparked, they’ve rephrased the policy again and wrote a lengthy article detailing the reasoning, which is at the very least plausible.

      • enthusiasm_headquarters@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        16 hours ago

        I read about this too, and it worries me. Google has donated over a billion dollars to Mozilla over the years. That alone doesn’t scare me so much as it’s a blatant propaganda tool to deflect the antitrust sentiment that plagues them and will probably some day do its work of breaking them apart.

        Fortunately, there are numerous open source forks. I am currently using Librewolf, a fork of firefox focused on privacy and anti-tracking, and it has worked without a hitch. A couple of my extensions have required fiddling with to get right but it’s part of life if you care about these things.

      • dan@upvote.auEnglish
        6·
        17 hours ago

        They changed the wording of their policy for legal reasons. They haven’t actually changed what they do. They already updated the text of the policy to clarify.

  • Pulsar@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    14 hours ago

    Webserial is only reason I see to install Chrome. For everything else Firefox works great.

  • g4nd41ph@lemmy.worldEnglish
    32·
    19 hours ago

    I swapped to Chrome years ago because YouTube stopped working right on Firefox.

    I’ve started the process of swapping back to Firefox after 10 years with Chrome over this.

    • karma@feddit.ukEnglish
      3·
      6 hours ago

      If they break youtube in alternative browsers or force ads I’ll finally be able to ditch youtube for good.

      • FauxLiving@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        7 hours ago

        The only problem I’ve had is that you can’t view HDR content in YouTube on Firefox.

        That’s not a big part of YouTube (yet), so it is largely unnoticeable.

      • ysjet@lemmy.worldEnglish
        15·
        16 hours ago

        I know what he’s talking about- there was some javascript spec or something that google proposed, and nobody else bought in, so it never actually became part of javascript’s standard.

        But google implemented it into chrome’s javascript engine anyway, and then used it for youtube. There was some fallback code if the new functions weren’t available, but, because of a ‘mistake’ they didn’t work and basically made playback ass for a while until the open source community basically debugged and fixed the issue FOR google, and then spent a few weeks cramming it down google’s throat that it needed fixed.

      • g4nd41ph@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        17 hours ago

        It probably didn’t have anything to do with Firefox itself. It’s likely related to something I messed up in FF or it was something to do with the ancient laptop I had at the time being a junk heap, but I tried Chrome and noticed that the trouble didn’t exist there. So I started using Chrome.

        I kept using it because of all the google integration, which was really handy when I was using the google business suite to run my own small business. I shut that down two years ago now, so there’s nothing really keeping me on Chrome any more.

        I swapped back to FF a few days ago and YouTube works fine now. So I’m back on the FF train and giving Google the finger the whole way over banning the adblockers that I liked.

    • devedeset@lemm.eeEnglish
      4·
      13 hours ago

      Ironically YouTube seems to work better for me in firefox, although the issue in chrome may be caused by browser extensions

    • Mike_The_TV@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      19 hours ago

      There were a few extensions you could run in firefox that told youtube that it was totally for reals being accessed by a chrome browser.

      • g4nd41ph@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        18 hours ago

        Boy, that would have been good to know back in 2015, I feel like I let Google hoodwink me into using Chrome for all that time.

      • g4nd41ph@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        17 hours ago

        Something was going wrong with video playback. Unfortunately, this was about 10 years ago so I don’t remember many specifics about what the problem was.

        • TangledHyphae@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          16 hours ago

          I’ve exclusively used firefox to watch youtube on Arch and Ubuntu for years, never had a problem so far for what it’s worth. I keep a laptop in the livingroom with Arch specifically to have adblocking and piping the video out to the TV. The youtube apps are terrible on the Roku last I remember, haven’t tried it in forever but I think the main reason was I didn’t want to see ads anymore.

          • g4nd41ph@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            9 hours ago

            My wife and I used the YouTube app on a Roku TV for some time, and it was rough. I’m not sure if the intense lag was caused by the app or the low specs of the TV, but either way it was a poor experience.

      • azalty@jlai.luEnglish
        1·
        16 hours ago

        They’re too strict, unless you have one that’s usable by default?

          • azalty@jlai.luEnglish
            1·
            5 hours ago

            Fingerprinting resistance is either too strict or none at all

            Cookies are removed when the browser is closed, and iirc history isn’t saved by default. It just makes it a pain for regular users

          • Abnorc@lemm.eeEnglish
            2·
            8 hours ago

            It’s been a while since I used it, but Librewolf had a habit of showing the bitwarden extension’s window at the wrong size.

            I was able to fix this by disabling a “resist fingerprinting” setting, but it’s annoying to have to do stuff like this in the first place. I really wanted to have an exceptions list that included certain websites for fingerprinting resistance, but I never found a clear way to do it.

            There are a few other examples of settings that I had to tweak in order to make the experience as good as Firefox.

            • azalty@jlai.luEnglish
              2·
              5 hours ago

              This: fingerprinting resistance is either too strict or none at all

          • sunbeam60@lemmy.oneEnglish
            1·
            17 hours ago

            Ah right. But none of them are true forks, really. They still rely on the Firefox project to port features in etc.

    • Victor@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      9 hours ago

      I wish I could say the same. Web dev. 🫡 But at least I’m using Chromium, if that’s even slightly better.

    • trn@lemm.eeEnglish
      6·
      23 hours ago

      Never has been 🔫 (at least for a couple of years)

    • Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      23 hours ago

      I only use chrome for my work stuff, and that’s because I work with g-suite a lot.

      Chrome fucking sucks

          • 11111one11111@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            15 hours ago

            I wish more people were like you. Not everyone can keep up with everyone’s beefs (this one not so much) but it really grinds my gears when I see seemingly polite, on topic, engaging or contributing comments with no replies but still geyting down voted. Especially on a forum as thirsty as Lemmy users are for more user involvement.

            It makes me think there are too many people in the world conditioned to be preset to hate thst the fact a person doesn’t know they’re supposed to hate something is enough grounds to be shunned and hated on. Lol. It’s cool to see someone jump in and say:Hey homie, we don’t hate you we hate a person who is unrelated to the topic of the thread or the context of your comment but we do hate them enough to hate on you

            Edit: the parenthesis comment was meant to imply hating Trump monkeys is glaringly obvious. My comment was about lemmy etiquette and wasn’t about why or why not OP was getting downvoted.

            • Victor@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              9 hours ago

              It’s gotta be some kind of sheep brain activation; crowd following behavior. It can be very annoying sometimes.

              Sometimes you’re just voicing a neutral opinion and it gets destroyed. And by neutral I mean it’s not controversial or anything, like racism, it could just be something not exactly everyone would agree with.

              I wish people would use the down vote as Reddit once intended it to mean: off topic and not contributing to the discussion, or perhaps rude, etc. Not “I don’t agree with this”. You should explain why you don’t agree with something, or up vote a comment that already explains it.

  • scarabic@lemmy.worldEnglish
    51·
    1 day ago

    I take this as a sign that it genuinely still works to block ads and hasn’t sold out and become malware like those others that used to be popular.

    • Bazoogle@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      21 hours ago

      It was removed because Google did away with manifest v2 for browser extensions, and uBlock Origin worked almost entirely from a feature provided in manifest v2. So it was removed because it can no longer work on chromium devices, unless the browser manually adds back in support for it. Firefox has chosen to continue to support manifest v2, so the original uBlock origin is still available. uBlock lite is still available in the chrome store, and uses the new manifest v3. It is more limited in it’s capability, but should be able to get the most obtrusive stuff. The lite version is definitely not nearly as powerful as the original.

      On a side note, it seems to me like the link still works for now. Idk how much longer that will last.

    • Libra00@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      24 hours ago

      Yeah, I switched to Firefox when this whole Manifest V3 thing was announced, I only still have Chrome installed because it’s better for PDFs than Firefox and once in a great while i run into a site that doesn’t work right on Firefox.

      • Trashbones@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        1·
        20 hours ago

        I actually really like Firefox for reading pdf’s, how is it in chrome? I’ve never actually tried chrome for that because I was still using okular back when I still had chrome installed on anything.

        • Libra00@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          16 hours ago

          The main issue I have with Firefox is that some pdfs have this side-by-side layout (especially rpg pdfs) that Firefox respects and I keep having to turn it off every time I load a new one. Chrome doesn’t respect it and shows it a page at a time like I want. My eyes don’t work too good so side by side the text is just too small.

  • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
    27·
    23 hours ago

    And that is why I went to Firefox once Google announced this bullshit.

    Swapping is pretty painless. It even brings over all your passwords and stuff these days. Best get to swapping before Google disable that as well. They’d just love to keep you hostage.