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[–] jk1006@feddit.org 19 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I am from Germany and it is just sad how many people use these apps from shit companies without thinking, when suitable alternatives exist everywhere. Just use Firefox, it will work for 99,9% without any flaw. I would love to ditch WhatsApp, but could only convinge a few people to change to Signal. It is as easy as downloading a new app to prevent supporting Meta, but that's too much effort for many :-(

[–] Pixel101a@lemm.ee -4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

People not using Firefox is Mozilla's fault. Just look at how their mobile browser performs. It's so much worse than any chromium browser.

[–] DrQuickbeam@lemmy.world 4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I've been using Firefox mobile since they enabled extensions on it a little over a year ago on my Pixel 9 and haven't had any performance issues with it. My only complaint is that it doesn't handle form auto fills, or opening links associated with apps as well as chrome, but I think that's because of chrome's inherent ties into the OS. I prefer Opera on desktop for the UI and features.

[–] NewDay@feddit.org 2 points 6 hours ago

I use Firefox mobile since they support extensions but I have to admit that mobile browsers that are based on Geckoview are worse than browsers that are based on Blink.

Mozilla said that they want to concentrate their power on the mobile version, but I could not find the statement anymore.

[–] Zzyzx@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

It's really annoying to me that Firefox doesn't seem to work well on my chromebook, so I'm stuck with Chrome until I need a new computer...

[–] John@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

May you can install Linux on your Chromebook Have a look at

[–] Zzyzx@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 8 hours ago

I've considered that before. I'm just not sure I'm proficient enough to be able to do that on my own. I can apparently buy laptops with Linux as the OS from a tech store where I live, so I may eventually go that route.

[–] jam_scot@lemmy.world 16 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I switched to Firefox many years ago, after their announcement I switched to Waterfox and I'm very happy with it.

[–] FactualPerson@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

How did you choose Waterfox? Are there any resources that compare these FF forks?

[–] fika@lemm.ee 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Not Waterfox, but others is listed here https://www.privacytools.io/private-browser

Worth to be mentioned are also

https://floorp.app/en

but the best IMO https://zen-browser.app/

[–] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 5 points 9 hours ago

Chrome? I've heard of that once.

[–] MindlessHunter4@sh.itjust.works 21 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Glad I don't use chrome anymore. Though unfortunately everyone else I know still does.

[–] knexcar@lemmy.world 64 points 19 hours ago (30 children)

This is probably the single thing that got me to switch to Firefox. Privacy whatever, I don’t care about my data or the morality of my tech company or whatever, but mess with my adblocker and goodbye.

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[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 3 points 11 hours ago

That was a loud ball drop from Google’s hands.

[–] Jimius@lemmy.ml 108 points 22 hours ago (9 children)

if ads were normal and unobtrusive. We wouldn't need ad blockers. Instead we get an almost unusable internet where ads take up more and more real estate. I had been running an ad blocker for so many years that when a friend (who doesn't use an ad blocker) showed me a website, the unfiltered experience was horrifying.

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[–] Pulsar@lemmy.world 10 points 15 hours ago

Webserial is only reason I see to install Chrome. For everything else Firefox works great.

[–] g4nd41ph@lemmy.world 33 points 20 hours ago (10 children)

I swapped to Chrome years ago because YouTube stopped working right on Firefox.

I've started the process of swapping back to Firefox after 10 years with Chrome over this.

[–] karma@feddit.uk 3 points 7 hours ago

If they break youtube in alternative browsers or force ads I'll finally be able to ditch youtube for good.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 20 points 18 hours ago (6 children)

never had a problem with firefox and youtube

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

The only problem I've had is that you can't view HDR content in YouTube on Firefox.

That's not a big part of YouTube (yet), so it is largely unnoticeable.

[–] ysjet@lemmy.world 17 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I know what he's talking about- there was some javascript spec or something that google proposed, and nobody else bought in, so it never actually became part of javascript's standard.

But google implemented it into chrome's javascript engine anyway, and then used it for youtube. There was some fallback code if the new functions weren't available, but, because of a 'mistake' they didn't work and basically made playback ass for a while until the open source community basically debugged and fixed the issue FOR google, and then spent a few weeks cramming it down google's throat that it needed fixed.

[–] bearboiblake@pawb.social 12 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

google does this kinda shit on purpose to reinforce their market position

[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 4 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

One of the many reasons why Google should be splitted into different companies

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Isn't it? YouTube isn't its own company?

[–] TheGalacticVoid@lemm.ee 1 points 8 hours ago

He means separate companies with few or no ties with each other.

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