• 0x1C3B00DA@fedia.io
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    5 months ago

    It’s funny how this comes after Chrome’s switch to Manifest V3, which makes ad blocking not possible on Chrome and was purely for security reasons and not for disabling ad blockers. Now that Chrome users can’t block ads on the first-party site, they’re going after third-party clients. Such coincidental timing.

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      5 months ago

      “security reasons” is the classic cop-out for making users lives more miserable.

      Like what are you gonna do, argue that you don’t care about security?

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      5 months ago

      Has that actually rolled out yet? I thought it was only announced and planned for late this year.

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        5 months ago

        firefox!!!

        firefox and ublock origin has existed all along cmon, ditch that spyware already whats the holdup, what makes people so damn allergic to using anything other than chrome

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            I literally don’t know what people who say this mean. It looks totally modern, almost identical to the chrome and edge UIs, it’s fully customizable, and there are thousands of extensions to alter the appearance in a single click, not to mention custom css styling if you want complete control.

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            5 months ago

            ive been using it for (quite) a while and its always looked like a carbon copy of every other browser and vice versa

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            How is the mobile app terrible? I’ve been using it for years with no issues, and it has many extensions that chrome on Android doesn’t allow like adblocking.

            The tabs in FF are great, for years now FF has been much better at handing huge accounts of passive tabs, and there are tons of extensions to provide any functionality you could want.

            I guarantee you if you just install a few extensions that you like and use it for a week you won’t even notice any more.