Original Toot: https://strangeobject.space/@silvermoon82/110969122337810598

  • SaltyIceteaMaker@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Google keeps taking L's and firefox keeps taking W's. If they keep going maybe firefox will be most used browser again

    • June@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      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.

      • facow [he/him, any]
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        1 year ago

        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

      • Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        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.

        • June@lemm.ee
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          1 year ago

          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.

        • fox [comrade/them]
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          1 year ago

          That's just chrome with a hat on and does nothing to help reduce the encroachment of Google as the internet's sole provider

          • SaltyIceteaMaker@lemmy.ml
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            1 year ago

            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

            • silent_water [she/her]
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              1 year ago

              it's literally made by an adtech company. you're falling for marketing hype

                • silent_water [she/her]
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                  1 year ago

                  https://www.adexchanger.com/online-advertising/brave-launches-ad-and-rewards-platform-pitting-the-browser-versus-ad-tech/

                  • SaltyIceteaMaker@lemmy.ml
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                    1 year ago

                    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

        • June@lemm.ee
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          1 year ago

          It’s still chromium based, which I’m trying to get away from as much as possible.