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Google keeps taking L's and firefox keeps taking W's. If they keep going maybe firefox will be most used browser again
I hate that I have to keep chrome on my machine because some sites I visit don’t work well, or at all, on Firefox.
The most annoying thing is the website that insist on displaying a banner everytime you visit to tell you that it won't work on Firefox. And then it works perfectly fine
I've heard a lot of people mention this recently and I must live a charmed life because I've never had this happen. There was I think maybe, once where I was having a problem with a site and it said that I needed to use a browser like chrome so I begrudgingly did and it still didn't work so I don't count that as an example and other than that, I've just never seen it. In fact I'm pretty sure it's not since about 2001 that I've seen any website give me shit with only working on certain browsers and that was sites designed to work on IE6 or something.
Just had it happen yesterday with the the students loan simulator. It wouldn’t work on Firefox and kept getting hung and freezing. Opened it in chrome and it worked perfectly first time.
It’s not common, but enough that I keep chrome installed for now.
That's just chrome with a hat on and does nothing to help reduce the encroachment of Google as the internet's sole provider
But it is more private than chrome and makes heavy modifications for privacy/freedom's sake it is definitely better than actual chrome if you have to use something chromium based
it's literally made by an adtech company. you're falling for marketing hype
seeing as no one has delivered proof so far i would argue that thats not the case.
i mean one can literally check for themself (even i, if i could be bothered)
https://www.adexchanger.com/online-advertising/brave-launches-ad-and-rewards-platform-pitting-the-browser-versus-ad-tech/
Users opting into Brave Rewards will see 60-70 character messages during a browser session, and receive 70% of the revenue from the ad, with the other 30% going to Brave.
literally the 4th sentence.
funnily enough you said its made by an adtech company yet the source you provided says its browser against adtech
It’s still chromium based, which I’m trying to get away from as much as possible.
People who still use Google Chrome in 2023 should not be surprised. Firefox gang stays winning
This is misinformation. This has to do with Google collections and how it's a shared platform, so of course google is going to monitor this.
Your private bookmarks are fine. Relax.
Still, you shouldn't use Chrome or any Google products if you can help it.
Fake, as that site is brand new and has nothing on it.
what site is brand new?
I think they meant the Kickass Torrents (KAT) link. It was taken down in 2016, but it looks like it's back by the original people that were running it.
Now we know we’ve reached parity with Twitter, we have people sharing misinformation!
Jesus just stop using Google. I registered my own domains (in plural yes) and nowadays I’m using them with iCloud, but I could easily change my entire emails from provider with a simple dns change.
For browser I advise using Firefox, but if you don’t like its performance Brave it’s also a good choice. (Though both have some shit going on behind curtains still far better than Google).
For password management just use either Bitwarden, Proton Pass or 1Password. It’s easy not to use Google to store your data, there’s a lot of competitors for what they do.
Most modern browsers will hang a tab rather than keep it alive if it hasn't been used in a while.
fox is correct and also those tabs i havent opened in months or years don't get loaded on session resume either. maybe someday i'll finish watching that david harvey lecture
Good thing I've been using Raindrop.io to manage my bookmarks for years because I used to switch browsers so often. I've settled on Firefox for the most part, but am looking forward to Arc on Windows.
Is there a self-hosted version or alternative? This looks solid, but I've been trying to self host as much as possible
Here you go, comrade:
https://awesome-selfhosted.net/tags/bookmarks-and-link-sharing.html
I chose Linkding because it's simple to set up, I'm looking forward to Omnivore when it's a bit more easy to self-host.
I’ve started using arc on Mac and I can’t go back. Hopeful that it gets released on windows soon.
Can you tell me the appeal of Arc? I have it, and I've used it, but I just can't seem to "get it".
I use it at work and it’s simplified a lot of things. On Mac I use different desktop spaces for different apps. So it put a lot of my apps onto one screen instead of 3. I put Spotify, my project management software, and my browser on one screen. So it simplified my workflow in that way.
I also like the different spaces that you can setup. So I have one space for general work tabs, stock imagery websites, and then inspiration websites. All while keeping my 6 most used websites at the top. So really I like how it’s rearranged my bookmarks. Also a fan of its Split View management. I know I could just drag a tab out in chrome or whatever. But this will automatically size them nicely.
Overall I could see it not being very useful if you just use a browser for checking email or one or two sites. But it excels at managing a lot of tabs.
Edit: One last thing I love is the auto tab delete after 12 hours (you can change the time or turn it off). I love being able to just spam tabs and come back the next day and have it all clean and fresh.
Is this just chrome? Or does this affect all chromium browsers? And yes, I already use FF, but I also use Brave for when FF doesn't work.
the only two things that shock me about this is
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That it took until now for it to happen
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that people are shocked by it.
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As people have said, this is fake, but why would you keep any important data with Google anyway?
doing the Lord's work out here, cheers
