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[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 month ago (18 children)

I feel like I have seen this news since forever, I am happily living my life with Firefox... Although the android mobile really needs some love.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

i like it, tbh I barely use the phone. I need more RAM on it for it to be more useful. It's crazy that even 8GB is not good enough. Dam Samsung bloat. I wish I had a stylus option for Google pixel or something that can take a privacy respecting OS.

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[–] [email protected] 65 points 1 month ago (5 children)
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[–] [email protected] 81 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I'm glad I don't use that piece of shit.

Firefox or nothing.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Been using Firefox for as long as I can remember now. Never had a reason to switch away, and I'm feeling rather vindicated.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I don't understand why all these chrome derivatives and firefox don't just band together and extend manifest v3 with some vendored standardised extension that addresses the limitations.

Browsers do that for CSS and JavaScript features already. An extension could just check if the browser supports the "unlimited filters" option and use it if its available.

I have never researched it but heard that the permissions of manifest v3 are much better for privacy.

I am in favor of removing manifest v2 if the vendored extension becomes a reality.

Browsers already have too much complexity, lines of code and feature creep.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Firefox implements v3 without the restrictions.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

the company said it would start turning off Manifest V2 extensions

...in time for Black Friday & the holiday sales?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I've been dual welding browsers since chrome came out. The second they started talking about deprecating manifest 2, I test drove Vivaldi and Brave. Now they're set up as my second.

I tried to convert over to Libwolf, But it absolutely massacres my passkeys.

I plan to main Firefox until they do something stupid which I think is inevitable with their recent statements.

I'm just hoping that by the time The other Firefox shoe drops there will be something else viable on the market. I don't know how long Brave and Vivaldi can hold out with chromium changing underneath them

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I wouldn’t trust Brave as it has a poor track record for privacy and is often used as a crypto miner behind the scenes.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (3 children)

That's a fairly long time ago now and the crypto token crap is off by default. As far as I know they are the only browser with a paid development team that is trying to combat YouTube ads. And they're blocking technique is unique amongst the options we have. If it comes down to using Brave for YouTube, I have no problem with doing that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The only thing stopping me moving to Brave is the awful bookmark sync implementation... when I used it for a small period in the past it was keeping some I'd long deleted on other devices etc

I also would prefer it to implement bookmark separators (like both Vivaldi and FF do) but I can live without those if they sorted out the sync.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Vivaldi, run by the old opera team, has their own adblock built into the app itself

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yup. I always get shat on for mentioning that the crypto crap is off by default. I quite like the idea behind it, have the browser send you ads and then allow you to choose what to do with the earnings but in practice it doesn't work so well sadly

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