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That’s okay. Literally the only thing I use chrome for is gmail.
Try Thunderbird (desktop) and/or FairEmail (mobile).
Thanks, I probably should. I use Thunderbird already but only for my own/website email.
Even better, just add the gmail account to your list and done.
Chrome has some special method / offline client built-in to access Gmail? Do not know anyone who just does not use Gmail web client https://gmail.com
what a bunch of cunts
I’ve been limiting Google Chrome for about 5 years now.
I’ve switched from reddit to Lemmy, from windows to Linux and just as easy as my devices are running Firefox. I was balls deep in Google, they keep on pushing me away
Same here, man, same here. EndeavourOS + Firefox + Privacy Badger + uBlock origin + User agent switcher/manager + VPN is my favorite recipe so far.
I wonder if there ever will be a point where the mayor populous actually goes “screw this” and starts finding out how to change their browser via “how to change internet” or “how to change google”
will there ever be a point where this even happens i wonder, like at all
Users will limit Google Chrome starting June 2024.
I already did.
I thought this had already been implemented. How many times have they already delayed it?
If you mean Manifest V3 (MV3) then yeah it’s been on the table for a while, they had to make additional APIs for other extension developers because of how restrictive it was to begin with. The question is how many APIs are they going to develop without inadvertently allowing more adblock extensions? It’s a tough problem for them it seems.
On mobile I’m using DDG as primary browser. Firefox as secondary.
On my personal machine it’s Firefox and Chromium.
For my job I use Thorium as main (switched coming from Brave), Chrome, Firefox and Edge.
Could do without Chrome any day.
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On mobile I’m using DDG as primary browser.
Don’t get me wrong, DDG’s app is a massive step up in privacy, but it’s hardly a browser, it’s simply a WebView frontend. You’re pretty much still using Chrome.
I limited google chrome a long time ago when i switched back to firefox for good
“Limit”
Firefox’s decision to move to WebExtensions is starting to look even more questionable, IMO.
Yeah, perhaps not their greatest move ever. I miss how customizable Firefox used to be. For a long time I used Waterfox Classic to postpone the switch, but it got harder and harder. Now you have to use stuff like paxmod to get back some of the old features.
I don’t know the internal technical issues too well, though, and they have made a lot of headway in the speed department since switching. I do recall discussion around when they dropped them about being held back by the addon architecture.
It definitely was their gratest move ever. So many improvements was blocked by supporting the old extensions. Firefox would be completely useless and dead by now if they was still supporting them. Their loss in market share to chrome is largely due to not killing them 5 years earlier.
OK, but even if I accept that there was a technical necessity, the new architecture needlessly blocked ui modification to offer a less flexible experience. They could have provided a solution that worked better for their most loyal users and long time advocates. Instead they caused the outflux of these highly technical users, many of whom instead championed chrome, and more or less got us into this mess in the first place.
A lot of the Firefox users you mention have probably moved to Vivaldi, given that it has implemented features that Firefox had via extensions before they went all in on WebExtensions.
Questionable in what way?
It was originally questionable because it completely hobbled extensions, and now Chrome is seeking to hobble the standard even more
Yeah and it’ll be very interesting as to what the Firefox fanboys will think then when that continues gaining traction.
I’ll go back to what I said - all browsers are generally shit in one way or another. And they influence one and another. Very few browsers keep up the fight but browser hopping will be entirely meaningless when these people are out to redesign the web in their visage.
Oh no! There are literally zero other options but to use Chrome!
This impacts all Chromium based browsers. Unless support is maintained separately by browser vendor, only other option is Firefox or any of its forks.
This is kind of a time for Mozilla to shine, but I worry they will mess up and maybe even follow later.
I know you are being sarcastic, but it’s not sarcasm at all, and therefore no laughing matter, when more and more websites drop support for none-chromium browsers, or actively block them. Netizens tend to have some missguided belief that every problem can be solved with software alone. This is a trap.
What about Brave their whole sales pitch is ad blocking?
Wish them a farewell
of seeings patturn
I’d be very curious how they are going to try and fuck over Firefox, or similar browsers.
It’s not “just business “, it’s personal. It’s all personal, Mike. You know who I learned that from? Your Father, the Godfather.
Google’s proposed “Web Integrity API” browser-DRM was probably the biggest attack on the open web since its conception. I don’t think they have fully given up on that idea and they’ll likely sneak it in more gradually and slowly. Manifest v3 is just a small baby step in this direction of taking away user control.
The various websites will just say Firefox is “not supported”. I just wrote this in another comment, but Twitch doesn’t let you log in on FF because it has some kind of advanced tracking protection. I guess YouTube and the rest will just join the fuckery and block you from using their content if you’re on FF. I mean, I really hope they won’t do that, but knowing what degree of assholery these companies can pull off, I think it’s the next step.
I used to have that issue with Twitch and FF, the fix was to create a new Firefox profile :)
Presumably the FTC will have something to say about blatant anticompetitive actions such at these. Then again, that’s why corporations buy themselves representatives, senators and judges.
Edit: such not suck
This is news to me. I log into twitch on FF all the time.
Same no problems here and I have those strict features enabled.
That’s weird. I’ll try the above trick the next time.
I’m only using Chrome for work because the profile switching & syncing is so much smoother and our company is split into two primary brands - my brain handles it better with an individual browser profile for each.
We’re consolidating everything into one next year, meaning I can ditch the second browser!
I’ve tried setting up a second profile but it was just too much effort to get it working and bring everything across from both, then do the same on my laptop for travel, so I’ll just wait for now.
Multi account containers. Check it out.
I really don’t understand why Mozilla doesn’t add a profile switch icon in Firefox.
Most people probably have no idea that Firefox can do profiles or some of the stuff it can do with them (sync online, send tabs between devices etc.)
