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Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome (arstechnica.com)
submitted 1 year ago by rimu@piefed.social to c/technology@lemmy.world
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If you can, use Firefox.

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[–] snownyte@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

We're in a lose/lose scenario here. Google has been inserting ad-tracking and soon will be nuking ad-blockers.

Then you've got Firefox wanting to implement AI soon at the cost of employees.

Is there really anywhere else we can go before both of their shit hits the fan?

[–] Damage@feddit.it 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Firefox is open source, bullshit can be excised if necessary

[–] calzone_gigante@lemmy.eco.br 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maintaining a browser is crazy hard. If Firefox goes to shit, it would require some serious foundation to maintain a good fork.

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Yes, and expensive. This is often overlooked when people just say don't worry it's FOSS. The enshitification happens slowly, and by the time there is outrage about how bad it becomes the last non intrusive fork might be several years old and take even more work to modernize. I'm not giving up all hope, but you are correct, it would be a very ambitious community undertaking to keep such a thing competitive with the plethora of evil browsers out there.

[–] comador@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Opera, Vivaldi and Brave are descent alternatives.

EDIT:

Vivaldi (based on Opera, but FOSS and not Chinese) is still good.

I didn't realize Brave inserted referral codes, TIL.

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Each of which depend on chrome and google's decisions.

[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Idk why you're being downvoted. All of these browsers are chromium browsers.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We need a federated browser.

[–] ZephyrXero@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Firefox needs to ship with IPFS & IPNS built in, then we'd have a Distributed web. Which is I think what you're asking for maybe?