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umbrella, in Manifest v3 is Worse than I Thought
@umbrella@lemmy.ml avatar

get firefox and ublock origin.

its so fucking simple, why do people have such weird attachment to chrome??

Concave1142,

We are in the middle of rolling out a new SaaS solution at work that just works better in Edge. The amount of outrageous levels of anger and disgust we get from telling them to use Edge is stupid. Even telling users it is built on Chromium, just like Chrome, does nothing to dissuade their unfounded anger.

With some people it actually comes down to telling them, “if you don’t use Edge, then I guess you need to start looking for another job that only uses Chrome”.

I just don’t get it.

cm0002,

Edge can go fucking die, MS has lost all trust with me when it comes to them and Internet Browsers, I rip edge out of all my systems no matter what it might “break”.

Maybe you should deploy solutions that are browser agnostic. That kind of shit is how we ended up with IE and its proprietary BS like ActiveX years ago. Clearly, people are forgetting history

meat_popsicle,

lol like management gives two shits about how browser agnostic a product is. business solutions look to address the perceived gap or need, not tailor to IT personnel feelings.

cm0002,

That’s easy, just find [Some important person] who can’t live without [Chrome/Firefox/Whatever] and bring them to your side lmao

Either way, it didn’t sound like he was saying “I tried to push for better, but management shut me down” it sounded like he was happy to move to edge and “couldn’t understand why people were angry”

Heavybell,
@Heavybell@lemmy.world avatar

For better and worse, most people don’t care what’s under the hood. They care about the surface features. I.e. Chrome already has their bookmarks, the buttons are all in the same place, etc.

You and I know there’s little difference but end users don’t want to change, even if it’s to something that would benefit them in the long run (i.e. Firefox)

lemmyreader,

Agreed on using Firefox/LibreWolf and uBlock Origin, I love that combination. I think the thing is that Google Chrome is much faster than Firefox on Android phones (I don’t mind, I hardly ever use mobile to browse), and long time habits can be hard to break for some people.

ziixe,
@ziixe@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Yup, can say that firefox is quite a bit slower on android (but honestly it’s still quite ok, unless it decides to loop loading the page, or it bugs out in another way, at least on my phone it’s quite prone to breaking, for comparison brave is really a bit faster than Firefox

umbrella, (edited )
@umbrella@lemmy.ml avatar

Yeah, it IS slower on android, but adblocking more than makes up for it IMO.

ziixe,
@ziixe@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Also not only that, but the ability to let me choose if I want to open a link in an app or not, happens countless times with stuff like GitHub automatically wanting to redirect to the app (which sucks)

umbrella,
@umbrella@lemmy.ml avatar

oh there was a bug a few versions back that did this, but it seems they fixed it now

jmp242,

Not so much chrome, but many browsers (like my favorite Vivaldi) are chromium based. I wish they’d just keep uBlock going in the chromium rebuilds, but IDK if that’s possible. Seems like it should be to me though.

Also, we switched at work from Firefox because somehow they broke system level updates a few years ago, and nothing I could do was able to figure out why their installer stopped working without first having someone run the uninstall graphically to update to the new version. It would just say Firefox wasn’t a valid windows exe till I manually removed it. And even the Mozilla Enterprise list seemed flummoxed. Honestly, I think they should have reverted the installer change, or even just use a standard installer that doesn’t have this problem, but hey.

yogthos,
@yogthos@lemmy.ml avatar

This is precisely why I’ve never found Chromium based browsers to be of much relevance. These are just skins on top of the rendering engine which is the core of the browser and that’s entirely controlled by Google. People kept ignoring this and now we’re in a situation where Chrome and its derivatives dominate the market to the point where sites no longer care whether they follow W3C specs as long as Chrome renders them. We’re now back in pretty much the same situation we were in the days of IE.

It’s depressing that people were unable to understand where things were going until Google started doing blatantly evil things. The only thing that was keeping Google in check before was the fact that it was lack of market dominance. Google is an ads company, and there is a huge conflict of interest with them being the gatekeepers to the internet.

Shamot, in Ghostery Private Search
@Shamot@jlai.lu avatar

Does it detect the paywalls and cookie walls too?

Zerush,
@Zerush@lemmy.ml avatar

I don’t use pages with paywalls which I can`t skip (very few), cookie walls don’t exist for me, they are skipped all.

Cheradenine, in Fossify Phone (Fossify is a fork of Simple Mobile Tools) is now available, adding to Fossify's existing Gallery, File Manager, and Calendar apps

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  • null,

    It has 1 downvote…

    Every post that gets even a little traction is going to get some downvotes because people like to troll.

    But this could even just be a misclick - I’ve done that before.

    It’s really not worth worrying about.

    RIP_Cheems, in Manifest v3 is Worse than I Thought
    @RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world avatar

    Good think I don’t use chrome.

    mathiouchio,

    Great minds thing alike.

    chicken, in Manifest v3 is Worse than I Thought

    I thought they cancelled manifest v3 after the backlash?

    Croquette,

    They never do. They wait for the backlash to be over, change a few things and try it again.

    JackSkellington, in Ghostery Private Search

    If it has anything to do with the ghostery addon that was bought by ad company, keep away from it

    Zerush, (edited )
    @Zerush@lemmy.ml avatar

    I don’t use ad ons from Ghostery, nor the browser, the search engine is in my list good for analyze certain pages, as daily search I use Andisearch, Mojeek, Getpage and Groot, sometimes also LibreY, all these 100% “clean”. Addons I use are CanvasBlocker, SiteBleacher and a userscript to show the middlefinger to YT anti adblock. Ad and trackerblocker the inbuild.

    Vinny_93, in Manifest v3 is Worse than I Thought

    Who uses chrome anyway even there’s vivaldi

    umbrella, (edited )
    @umbrella@lemmy.ml avatar

    why are people that allergic to firefox?

    vivaldi is chrome with extra steps

    jmp242,

    Mostly because the browsing experience IMO is much much worse with Firefox. I tried extensions to get functionality back, it made it worse - slower, buggy, extensions would stop being developed etc. I wish Firefox was better, I really do. But IME it’s frozen functionality like it’s 2010 or so. Like, they have tabs, who hoo. I really find save/restore, multi window control, tab stacks, sessions, workspaces, and easy UI config pretty important in day to day use. That said, I also think ads are a deal breaker, but I really wonder if this won’t bring back some of the ad-blocking proxies you run locally or something.

    Or, someone forks chromium to keep Manifest v2 or whatever.

    floofloof,

    I use both Firefox and Chrome-based browsers and I haven’t come across any major differences in functionality. What are all these things Chrome can do that Firefox can’t?

    umbrella,
    @umbrella@lemmy.ml avatar

    those are all things that don’t exist on most browsers without many extensions

    floofloof,

    Choose a Firefox-based browser instead for open source.

    Cheradenine, (edited )

    To paraphrase ’ a Chrome by any other name would smell as sweet’

    ghostface,

    Browser Wars!!!

    free, in New Advertisement and Internet connection permissions for Simple SMS Messenger on Google Play Store...

    Hey op, how did u get that screenshot? My gplay didn’t have the new tags ‘new’ 😥 0x0.st/H0pq.png

    reactive_recall,

    Interesting, maybe it’s because of the phone. I’m using pixel 6a with GrapheneOS

    free,

    Lol me too, I swear. Thanks for reply . I’m in the land of oz. So I assume ur in america. Different laws Im gonna assume.

    library_napper, (edited ) in This is how I KNOW it works as intended
    @library_napper@monyet.cc avatar

    Please dont post pictures of text without transcribing the text.

    KillingTimeItself,

    intrigued by the fact that this is hated so much. It’s a courteous ask, and something you probably should be doing. Especially if you can just copy and paste the majority of it.

    I try to do it when possible.

    anarchy79,
    @anarchy79@lemmy.world avatar

    My bad, I’m still new to this. Someone else kindly did below, no offense meant.

    library_napper,
    @library_napper@monyet.cc avatar

    Please update the post with the transcript, add a link to the source page where the text appears, dont do this again, and let others know.

    Let’s maintain the quality of this comm.

    1984,
    @1984@lemmy.today avatar

    You think you are providing quality by making people jump through hoops for you? :)

    Waraugh,

    My only reference point is that I found out my blind grandpa is on here a few months back. Maybe they are trying to influence behavior that supports that level of software integration for blind visitors and have trouble communicating in a socially acceptable way.

    BananaOnionJuice,
    @BananaOnionJuice@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

    Yeah. If you could just go ahead and make sure you do that from now on, that will be great. And uh, I’ll go ahead and make sure you get another copy of that memo. Mmmm, Ok?

    jaybone,

    Yeeeeeeeeeeeahhh see it’s just that we’re putting new cover sheets on the TPS reports…

    1984,
    @1984@lemmy.today avatar

    My absolute favorite movie, next to Idiocracy. :)

    Bonskreeskreeskree,

    Who are you?

    DirigibleProtein,

    [Screenshot of web page]

    [Header with CNN logo]

    [Text of page follows]

    Browser Blocked

    We apologize, but your web browser is configured in such a way that it is preventing this site from implementing required components that protect your privacy and allow you to view and change your privacy settings. This functionality is required for privacy legislation in your region.

    We recommend you use a different browser or disable the “EasyList Cookie” filter from your “Content Filtering” settings (found under “Settings” -> “Shields” in the Brave Browser).

    [End of text]

    squid_slime, in Manifest v3 is Worse than I Thought
    @squid_slime@lemmy.world avatar

    And google will kill its self

    Zerush, (edited )
    @Zerush@lemmy.ml avatar

    I think the same, obviously Google don’t know the Cobra Effect

    LufyCZ,

    Nah, they know what they’re doing.

    squid_slime,
    @squid_slime@lemmy.world avatar

    Wishful thinking on my part tbh, I forget that there is an ecosystem with gmail :/

    PrivateNoob,

    Yeah and it’s kinda hard to get off from that. I’m in the process of switching my 2 gmail accounts to 2 proton ones and it seems that the ProtonMail app’s free plan doesn’t support multiple emails. Understandable but sad.

    ExtremeDullard, in What are your preferred methods of file encryption?
    @ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

    My volumes are PLAIN dm-crypt encrypted (i.e. LUKS without the LUKS bells and whistles) and the key is stored on my Vivokey Flex implant.

    I mount them using scripts that combine crypsetup and vivokey_pam, with the ubiquitous ACR122U RFID reader: the systemd service file calls my script, I present my implant to the reader and voila: the volume is mounted.

    two_wheel2,

    Geez this guy secures. Impressive

    BearOfaTime, in what are your recommendations for a good privacy friendly sms app?

    There’s no privacy with SMS. It’s sent in the clear. There’s no changing this with an app.

    TheOSINTguy,

    I understand thats its sent in plain text, I just want something that works and doesn’t have trackers built in.

    I already tried getting my family and friends to use signal, so that cant really be done because none of them want to use it.

    Cheradenine,

    If they won’t change to something better like SimpleX then you could use github.com/wrwrabbit/Partisan-SMS . It is a fork of qksms that adds privacy, it will do nothing for video quality or anything else though.

    BearOfaTime,

    But only if both ends use the same app.

    Which I always thought was a smart path forward, just getting people to switch apps, even for SMS, isike puling teeth.

    Cheradenine,

    Yes, it is only a solution if all parties are using Partisan, which means switching apps.

    As I understand it the use case for this app is during protests in Belarus where the government shuts down mobile internet but not SMS.

    pescetarian,
    @pescetarian@lemmy.ml avatar
    BearOfaTime,

    I get a 502.

    Zerush, (edited ) in Manifest v3 is Worse than I Thought
    @Zerush@lemmy.ml avatar

    No problems with the inbuild adblocker in Vivaldi, not even in YouTube (without any ads for me), problems only for Chromiums in which are remaining control and tracking APIs from Google and which are only can use “descaffeinated” Adblockers from the Chrome Store. I can use even direct userscripts in Vivaldi if needed, without the need of Tamper-, Greasy- or Violentmonkey extensions. Vivaldi is a Chromium browser, but Google for the past 9 years has hit its teeth on a rock in attempts to control it.

    cashews_best_nut, (edited )

    I was a Vivaldi user, like you, until I used Floorp and now I’m a crack addict.

    Zerush,
    @Zerush@lemmy.ml avatar

    Floorp is a nice Browser. Apart of Vivaldi, I use also the Mullvad Browser and the SSuite Netsurf for some tasks, before I also had the Midory Browser (almost identical to Floorp) and almost all others which are exist or existed in the past. But Vivaldi remain my main browser since 8 years.

    BlanK0, in This is how I KNOW it works as intended

    Lmao, “required componentes to protect your privacy” 🤣🤣🤣🤣

    7heo,
    @7heo@lemmy.ml avatar
    anarchy79, (edited )
    @anarchy79@lemmy.world avatar

    You see what they’re actually doing there?

    “We are by law forced to give you the option to view our ads and accept our tracking, because of privacy legislation in your region. Since you are hindering us from doing so, you can’t come to the birthday party”.

    Ok, thank you EU, I suppose! :)

    grue,

    Pretty sure CNN is (willfully) misinterpreting the law. The EU is definitely not prohibiting them from just turning off the tracking without providing a choice.

    anarchy79, in This is how I KNOW it works as intended
    @anarchy79@lemmy.world avatar

    Thanks for caring about my privacy, CNN, sorry I couldn’t be more helpful in facilitating your solid privacy measures.

    ceenote,

    You can be more helpful, though.

    Go to a different website.

    littlebluespark,
    @littlebluespark@lemmy.world avatar

    If it were working “as intended”, the site wouldn’t know you’re there. 🤌🏼

    anarchy79,
    @anarchy79@lemmy.world avatar

    Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good enough.

    dan1101,

    “You can totally trust us bro”

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