In this thread lots of uninformed people rationalizing why it's actually okay to use chromium.
I mean, define "ok" in this context
Will chrome kill you? No
Will chrome physically hurt anyone else because you used it? No
Will the internet become less free if google is able to successfully force this? Yes
Does using chrome contribute to this? Yes, marginally
Would as many people as possible switching off of chrome and chromium and onto an alternative help? Yes
I find this whole thing an interesting argument, as someone who switched from chrome to firefox for extremely unrelated reasons months ago.
The same people say "boycotts don't work". The facepalming here is hard. Welcome to the ad riddled future that you helped make because "people can use what they like" (because it's being pushed by a huge corporate entity and they want you to use it so they can shove ads down your throat and you should laugh at people who would use anything different)
And thus the brave lammings set out to inform other lemmings, who are as tech savvy and know this is happening, that this is happening by posting memes. Hopefully the people, who would already be using firefox if they cared, switch to firefox so we can breach the 3% market share and that'll show Google, maker of Chrome and Firefox' main sponsor, people care enough to stop this madness! - I'm not against activism, but activism in an echochamber can turn into a circlejerk. Everyone stop stroking please... I'm here for the memes.
Yes, for now. But also brave, which I'm told I should stop doing as well. You can see how well I listen to advice.
if you want a decent browser, there is firefox and basically all its forks and brave
you shouldnt use brave if
- you dont want to support google, as brave is based on chromium
- you dont want to support the people behind it, as there are some people who say theyre bad people but i got no clue if its true
i dont like chromium so ill stick with firefox (and mullvad browser), even though im still technically supporting google since most of mozillas revenue is from google (though i believe it is better since its not software made by google)
Honestly, it's mostly my comfort using chromium browsers (specifically chrome) for dev. I know the Firefox dev tools are way better than they used to be, but that's one more thing to sink time into when I could instead just get things done lol.
But, it's about that time.
you could try to degoogle chromium, if you want something similar to chrome
The past week every post has just been browser icons.
FFS, go browse the bottom of the Potomac.
Better start moving to Firefox now because with WEI and Manifest V3 it's not going to be very long until ads are unblockable
That's an easy enough switch. I've been looking for an excuse to use Firefox instead and that's a pretty good one.
A lot of panics turn out to be nothing, or nowhere near as bad as people thought. No reason I can't wait until it happens to move.
I read about Google already making it deliberately more difficult for addons to block under-the-hood trackers; do some ads not slip through uBlock on Chrome already nowadays?
I don't use uBlock. I use AdBlock. I also have a setting to let non-intrusive ads through, because that has an influence, even if a small one, on making the internet more tolerable for everyone else.
Before I turned that on, there were always some ads that slipped through on occasion. No biggie, there's a manual block button. No adblocker is perfect.
I don't care what browser you use
Also I like Edge. It works great and Google can kiss my butt
Edge is based off chromium, same "engine" that powers Chrome. As most browsers are.
Yeah, it's basically chrome without the bloat, less spying, and without the prohibition on ad blockers
That's fine but the point of the post is that you have to use a non chromium browser to avoid wei. Once it's implemented it's likely that edge and others will have to implement it too.
It would be a monumental effort for smaller browsers to keep chromium extensions working, while the rest of the ecosystem moves to the new APIs. The only way that could work is if they all fork chromium and base their browsers on this new fork, and even then it's not guaranteed to develop a real ecosystem of plugins since chrome has more users than all of those other chromium browsers combined.
So yeah you have to use Firefox if you want to avoid that, at least for now.
Thats what you get when you don’t care about single entities controlling the market.
As Chromium monopolizes the market they're able to push anti-user updates because sites don't care. It's down to Firefox or Chromium-based browsers. Firefox is basically the only thing that's kept Chrome from straight up removing adblocking capability and the like.
Correct. The real problem is allowing monopolies in the first place.
Those cucks aren't going to stop using chrome, they like it and it's good for them, so it's a win win, they get their stupid people browser.
