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It is essential to stop using Chrome. Under the pretense of saving users from third-party spyware, Google is creating an ecosystem in which Chrome itself is the spyware. (mastodon.world)

submitted 10 months ago by Live_Let_Live@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] shrugal@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I've been removing Google services from my life bit by bit over the past year, and I have to say it is crazy how hard it actually is! They have inserted themselves into so many digital workflows, securing monopoly positions and preventing the rise of competitors and open ecosystems. In many areas the only alternatives are other tech giants, or accepting feature downgrades and having to set things up manually.

I'm really glad that the browser is one area where the transition is actually very simple and straightforward!

[–] LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 10 months ago

Yeah, I'll never use Chrome again. Google has always been shady, but this latest round of anti-features is unbelievable. I'm shocked there's been no anti-trust suits related to what they're doing with Chrome. Firefox is just a better browser with way more security options and extension support. That alone is enough for me to stick with it.

[–] !deleted183961@kbin.melroy.org 0 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Not using Chrome is so easy. I mean, Firefox is right there and is a better browser to boot. I genuinely have no idea why people still use Chrome for everything.

[–] Jako301@feddit.de 0 points 10 months ago

Firefox is not the better browser in anything but privacy. Maybe it could win in customisability, but that's something only a few percent of users care about.

It has longer load times and sometimes breaks sites entirely while using about the same resources. Yes, the reason for that is that website creators don't deliberately support it, but the normal user only cares about functionality.

I still use it and recommend it to anyone that asks, but saying that it's the better browser is just delusional.

[–] obinice@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Okay I'm happy to switch, I used to use Firefox years ago until Chrome came along and it's a great browser, but can I integrate my Google accounts with it?

I want it to sync all my stuff to my Google accounts, and so far I've not found another browser that can do this :-(

I'm also not sure if all the plugins I have would have Firefox implementations, maybe they do. I use Darkreader, some password vault stuff, uBlock, SponsorBlock and the other YouTube one they make (I forget the name) are an absolute must, too.

[–] Johanno@feddit.de 0 points 10 months ago

All work on Firefox.

While you can't use Google password-manager easily on Firefox (probably there is a plugin for that) the Firefox password-manager is better in my opinion.

The Google account stuff works mostly, but I don't know what you exactly want to do. You should try it out.

[–] LifeOfChance@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I switched to Firefox and using DDG as my search engine about 2m ago and I'll be honest I really don't care for it. I'm trying my best but I use my phone for 100% of my browsing and not being able to set a home page sucks and with DDG searching for stuff takes significantly longer to get answers with. I search for a ton of stuff that I just need a quick answer to that when searching for Google would just show the answer instead of needing to open links and such. I'm giving it a bit more time but I'll probably end up back with chrome.

[–] pathief@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Try the startpage search engine. It has been much better for me than DDG.

Firefox allows you to select a home page, tho? Not sure what your problem with Firefox is.

[–] stagen@feddit.dk 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

On android firefox just doesn't perform so well as Chrome does and can seem slow and buggy.

[–] bad_alloc@feddit.de 0 points 10 months ago

Did you install uBlock yet?

[–] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

still waiting for anything that isnt mozilla or google based.

Thorium, oh good another chrome browser librewolf, oh good another firefox browser

PLEASE I BEG OF YOU, GIVE ME SOMETHING THAT ISN'T TAINTED.

[–] YeeHawSeeSaw@lemm.ee -1 points 10 months ago

So my gut instinct is to go to Firefox (again), but how can it compete? It’s down to like 2% market share, there’s a serious portion of the web that Firefox just can’t render anymore, and there’s all this press about the CEO getting this monsterous golden parachute.

So realistically what can anyone do but continue to use the only browser people ever really test sites for anymore, or swear allegiance to either Microsoft or Apple?

[–] verdantbanana@lemmy.world -1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

what are the other options

firefox is still not there in terms of language support and translating like chrome has etcetera

not bashing firefox or chrome honestly asking what else is there?

epiphany browser is even further behind

[–] viking@infosec.pub -1 points 10 months ago

Seems to me that Lemmy is nothing but a Firefox promo platform these days. For weeks this is the one and only trending topic.

[–] zingo@lemmy.ca -1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Well of course. Now all your traffic goes through proxies to Google's servers for analytics.

100℅ data harvesting.

Genius move by Google. Even calls it a security/privacy measure!

They will succeed too. Most of the human race are Neanderthals anyway. Couldn't care less.

[–] theonyltruemupf@feddit.de 0 points 10 months ago

Neanderthals were pretty strong and smart, maybe even more so than us. At least their brains were bigger.