• Kaaserne@feddit.nlEnglish
    512·
    2 years ago

    I really, really don’t understand why people use Chrome, or have been using it in the past

    • DrSteveBrule@mander.xyz
      311·
      2 years ago

      I used it for years and just recently switched to Firefox. I was just comfortable using it, and knew how to use the dev tools. I had my extensions set up how I liked. I’m still missing a few things on Firefox but fuck chrome.

    • hardypart@feddit.de
      1·
      2 years ago

      The last time I tried Firefox on a touch device the pitch to zoom function was basically useless. It was nothing but an equivalent to [Ctrl] + [+]. This was some years ago, so it could be better now.

    • JokeDeity@lemm.ee
      8·
      2 years ago

      I’ve noticed that the average listed salaries on Indeed have gone down about 30% in the last 2 years, which is great because prices of damn near everything have gone up at least as much.

      • Norgur@kbin.social
        5·
        2 years ago

        uBlock Origin does away with them. PiHole is more and more outclassed by the architecture hosts like Youtube deploy anyway.

      • Bizarroland@kbin.social
        31·
        2 years ago

        The pi hole doesn’t by itself, but adding in ublock origin is typically enough to get the job done. I basically never see you too bad outside of the sponsored sections and I guess I could use sponsor block for that

        • Spudwart@lemmy.worldOP
          51·
          2 years ago

          And uBlock is about to become useless for Youtube as it won’t be WEI Compliant.

          • cognitive@kbin.social
            61·
            2 years ago

            Which is another reason why we don’t use Chrome and why we wholeheartedly support other video hosting initiatives : )

            • r00ty@kbin.life
              51·
              2 years ago

              “Youtube requires a browser that supports Web Environment Integrity in order to provide you with the best quality in streaming content. Please upgrade to a browser supprting Web Environment Integrity. Chrome \ and Edge \ are our recommended browsers”

              Or words to that effect. And it’ll likely gradually become the same for most advert funded sites.

              EDIT: Actually I don’t think this will become a thing until it is hitting their bottom line. That is if enough people switch away from chromium based browsers. Just like it did for ad blockers.

              • JokeDeity@lemm.ee
                2·
                2 years ago

                These scumbag companies filled to the brim with more business degrees than ideas can go ahead and keep trying this shit, but I’m never playing ball. In fact, they’ve got me back into pirating when I had stopped for about a decade or more.

        • z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml
          0·
          2 years ago

          I dont use a pi hole (but am heavily considering setting one up).

          Right now I use newsboat rss to “subscribe” to whoever I want. When it opens Librewolf browser, a redirect extension takes me to an invidious instance of my choosing, the NoScript extension blocks everything, but the url is all i really need.

          I copy that url. I use yt-dlp to download video from invidious via my terminal emilator. Sponsorblock flags, give me captions flag, and if I’m willing to wait the extra time and give it the extra hard drive space, the best video flag. No ads, no sponsors, no JavaScript tracking me. Pure fuck marketers goodness.

    • metaStatic@kbin.social
      5·
      2 years ago

      worth running even if it didn’t block a single incoming ad. the amount of shit that phones home is truly absurd.