Oh boy, it’s happening. Google is flexing it’s muscles and abusing it’s market position. It has never been a better way to convince and support family and friends in moving across to Firefox, a fast and privacy supporting browser.
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What does it actually do? And will it affect at all if I use Firefox?
This article is also useful to understand it: https://lemmy.ml/post/2483035
- argv_minus_one ( @argv_minus_one@beehaw.org ) 1•1 year ago
If you use Firefox, you will be blocked from most websites going forward, including banks, doctors, and government. They’ll say it’s for security, all while harming your security by forcing you to use proprietary software.
(My phone keyboard thought I was trying to type “penitentiary software”, which…isn’t a bad description, actually.)
when the fuck are these bullshit fucking monopolies going to be broken up? They need to be broken up.
No government has the balls to act. More accurately, the lobbyists seem to be quite effective and the politicians often spineless and self-serving.
We’ll hit them where it hurts. Market share. Google, you’re no longer trusted to dictate web standards anymore. Websites must support Firefox as well as chrome. We need Firefox to have enough market share that companies wouldn’t risk losing x% of their userbase and therefore revenues.
Hmm. It’s a sad sad world we live in. Governments trying to put in backdoors that only the good guys can use (HA!). Conglomerates controllibg the internet. WEI. It’s a sad world. I miss the 90s internet :(
I thought that Chromium was a “Degoogled” version of Chrome. Where did that myth come from? I still see it spread online.
it still has a lot of google baked in. If you want true degoogled chromium, use degoogled chromium. But you should use firefox isntead. It’s better for freedom and user rights.
I use Firefox and support Mozilla for the reasons you state. I’m just surprised to hear that Chromium is not degoogled. Comments online - even Kbin - suggest otherwise which is unsettling.
that’s how google wants it. If people think chromium does’nt have any google in it, they’ll use it thinking they’re giving the thumbs down to google
Any idea where the myth comes from? Did Chromium start off “clean” and become contaminated later?
I think google bought chromium, but I’m not 100% sure.
I’ve been mainly using firefox on Windows for ages now, but switched my phone today. I’ll still need them because Japanese is a hard language and I need my Google Translate sometimes, but all other things go through FF now.
Eh? What is about accessing Google Translate via Firefox that you dislike? I’ve been using (sparingly) Google Translate via Librewolf (a fork of Firefox) and I haven’t experienced no problems with it.
Or are you talking about the Google Translate mobile app? I wish there’s a good alternative to it too.
If there’s a way to get google translate (or deepL or something; I’m not picky) in firefox, I don’t know about it. There might be a plug-in or something, but Chrome has it out-of-the-box whereas firefox has no such option.
How about brave?
It’s chromium and if people are using chromium, websites are going to be more likely to implement WEI. Google dictating web standards is the issue, and any chromium based browser keep that in place.
Message received and understood. I liked Brave cause I can make apps from websites, but I do understand the importance of what is being written here.
- argv_minus_one ( @argv_minus_one@beehaw.org ) 1•1 year ago
Moving across to Firefox, which will soon be blocked by 90% of websites, including banks, doctors, and governments? That’s going to be a harder sell than ever.
