Google Chrome will limit ad blockers starting June 2024::The “Manifest V3” rollout is back after letting tensions cool for a year.

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      I must admit I ditched Firefox for a while when it was considerably slower than Chrome.

      feelsbadman.

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          Rockmelt is a fork of Chromium, not a fork of Chrome. Same with Maxthon. Both Chromium and Chrome are maintained by Google, but Chromium is open-sourced while Chrome is not.

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              Agreed. I didn’t mean to imply chromium is a good thing, which is why I said it is maintained by Google. Lots of browsers are forks of Chromium, even Microsoft Edge, but I thought they were implying these browsers were illegal forks hacked from Chrome, so I looked them up and found they’re just more chromium forks.

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        I’m ashamed to say I did the same and even converted quite a few non-tech savvy people as well. :(

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        The trick is to never let your smugness show, then you can be smug about your humility as well. *sniff* Ahhhh…

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      Same as reddit to lemmy story for me. Moving mobile browser from kiwi(chrome fork) to Firefox nightly. Already a Firefox user in pc.

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      I wish it was for me, but Chrome is necessary for some work I do.

      Edit: very weird I get so many downvotes because I need to use a specific browser. Get out more, please.

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          I was doing some work on the social security site and the site i needed wouldn’t even load unless it was chrome or edge. There are sadly too many important website that are somehow allowed to gatekeep browsers. I feel like if their site follows guidelines then there’s no reason they should be restricted from browsers, but here we are.

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          Platforms I use don’t work reliably with other browsers, online teaching ones to be specific.

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            Ah, that’s a tough one.

            I needed to install Ungoogled Chromium to join lectures, because the remote learning site refused to work in Firefox (wouldn’t be surprised if it was developed against a chrome-specific API)

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            Most of the time the site doesn’t really need chrome, it’s just that’s all they test it with, so they say it’s a requirement.

            There’s an addon for Firefox called User-Agent Switcher and Manager that allows you to have Firefox identify itself to websites as chrome (among others), and it often fixes the problem.

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              I work in IT so I am aware of this. Maybe you’ve not worked in enough places that just build incompatible (cr)apps?

              And sure, just go outside our locked down machine policies and install Firefox and unapproved extensions. That will do down well.

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                Yeah, “most” was probably a bit hyperbolic, especially for internal websites, and I guess it’s no surprise that the sectors you mentioned would be particularly bad for it.

                The best place for my little PSA probably wasn’t in response to your post in particular.

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                  Sorry I’m snippy as I have personal stuff going on. You are right in so far as if you have full control of your machine which isn’t the case for the orgs I mentioned.

                  We can pull FF into our dev environment so I’ve seen these annoying behaviours.

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        Edit: …

        Yeah, I get “Google bad”, and agree, and am 100% on the Firefox train, but downvoting people for not using FF is kinda stinky.

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      I’ve tried switching so many times, most recently yesterday. Every time something just doesnt work or is missing. Yesterday it was stremios web client that refused to show the video that I was simultaneously watching in chrome.

      And the fact that Firefox doesnt do tab groups. Such a convenient feature for me, and I couldnt find an extension that did the job. Maybe some of you can help?

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        Absolutely agree on the tab groups. I don’t get how this is not implemented yet, it’s a basic feature with great impact to usability.

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          Firefox actually had tab groups way back, but Mozilla, in their infinite wisdom, removed it because apparently their main mission now is to antagonize all their loyal power users.

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            Right now there’s no built in options and it could just be deactivated.

            Also the add ins I’ve seen still lack chrome’s feature of auto grouping. They just allow me to manually group.

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          No amount of refreshing or clearing cookies and cache has helped so far. It just says “video not supported” no matter which file I try to play.

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            What are you trying to play ? Probably should contact mods. Would be good for them to know. Others will have similar problems.

            Do you have add one ? I need to turn off dark mode for some sites as it breaks it. Those are the only issues I’ve had.

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              It is probably a very specific issue, since I can’t find anyone else that has it, at least not doing the usual google-fu.

              When using the Stremio web client, firefox refuses to play anything I throw at it, whereas everything plays fine in the chromium browsers I’ve tried.

              No amount of turning extensions off or clearing cache or cookies or refreshing has fixed it so far.

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                Fire through the link and maybe folk can check it out. I know GeForce now doesn’t work on Firefox and steam doesn’t play nice.

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    To abuse a saying…

    Best time to be on Firefox? Yesterday.

    Second best? Today.

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      How long until Google starts paying sites to require chrome? The already tried rolling that concept out a few months ago. They only stopped because of the backlash that was publicly associated with it. They already pay major phone manufacturers to have google as their default or only search option.

      So who’s going to stop them when we start finding that major popular sites suddenly don’t work on firefox?

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        People could start configuring their sites to ban Google Chrome. Give a scary message that says something like “Google Chrome is not allowed on this site for your protection. Google Chrome has severe vulnerabilities that allow for easy infection. An autistic teenager was falsely convicted of selling CP after being infected and now must register for life.”

        People would switch away from Google Chrome incredibly fast if website owners started posting that.

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          I like the way you think, but that sounds like a lawsuit with one of the richest companies on the planet behind the prosecution. Could work for sites based outside of US jurisdiction.

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            They can’t sue millions of people.

            It could also be made very hard for them to win. All someone has to do is make a site making that claim and their ability to win will be gone. Any defendant can claim they read that site.

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              They don’t sue millions of people. They sue one person and make an example out of them and the chilling effect does the rest. That’s how this kind of thing goes.

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                That’s only if everyone else complies.

                Plenty of organizations would likely jump in. Someone could make a site alleging the bad thing that happened as the result of Google Chrome and that pretty much tanks the entire case. It would be very hard to prove reckless disregard for the truth when there’s a website that alleges the claim. Furthermore, someone could simply write the code and distribute it, and every site displaying it would have grounds for displaying it.

                All someone really has to do is find one thing that could potentially be a vulnerability in Google Chrome and they have grounds for making a scary notice about it.

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            I had no idea… didn’t that end up being canceled at some point or am I mistaken?

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              As it is customary, companies drop bomb shells to gauge their user base reaction. They pull back if the reaction is too strong and slowly reintroduce it piece by piece when the things have cooled down a bit.

              The moment they announced their intention to DRM the web meant that they will try to push however they can.

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              With something like that, it’s usually just rebranded and pushed out after backlash calms down.

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          I think there are more reliable ways to identify your browser. The user-agent is self reported, so not reliable. It’s just the simplest option that’s usually good enough unless you’re doing something malicious.

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        They won’t pay them it will be smarter than that. Possibly with proprietary APIs that only work on chrome etc. some sites already don’t work on Firefox.

        They’ll also further enshitifiy their own services on non chrome browsers.

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        Sounds like they will create a non-corporate version of the internet by accident. Sound good to me, but I feel like it won’t fly in EU to well.

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      I just can’t get used to Firefox. Last time I tried it (earlier this year), I tried for 2 months. Can’t remember all the reasons, but using the adresbar as calculator and see the results without pressing enter is so ingrained in my way of working. Just alt+d, 2+2 shows the result. Give me something better than that and I’ll give Firefox an other shot.

      Edit: lol at my downvotes. That’s what I get for asking a genuine question I guess. People really looove their Firefox here. (me too, but I’m missing some features)

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      I would love to see this happen but I suspect that the number of users who actually install ad blocker extensions and are willing to switch to a new browser once they stop working is fairly insignificant compared to the total numbers of people browsing in Chrome.

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        Agree, i have rarely seen people who actually use adblock outside my work. I had to practically tie up my entire family, in-laws included to get ublock installed on all their computers.

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        Weird do you have a screen shot you can share? they look fine to me.

        Could it be something withyour windows installation?

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          Here is a picture that demonstrates the problem. On the left is Firefox and on the right Thorium (Chromium). I’ve had this problem on Windows before but now I’m using Linux and it’s the same unfortunately.

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              Using DuckDuckGo (Android), which is chromium-based, it has the same problem, all text weights are bolded at the maximum values.

              It looks like Firefox is trying to be more respectful of the text weights, when deciding how to bold text.

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            Here is a picture that demonstrates the problem. On the left is Firefox and on the right Thorium (Chromium).

            If I’m understanding that screenshot correctly, it looks like Thorium (Chromium) is ignoring the text values and bolding any of them at the max bolding value, where Firefox respects the text values and bolts off of that just slightly.

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        I did have a strange issue with that in the past, but not any more.

        I think it went away after going through the Windows ClearType gubbins again.

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        It’s been forever since I last looked, but can’t you actually change what fonts are used from within Firefox directly?

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    People keep saying (and corpos keep believing) that normies will just “get used to the ads or pay a premium”

    But everybody has a breaking point. People who already dislike it have left chrome or are in the rush to leave. Once people reach this point, they will start asking their more tech savvy friends or the Internet for a better way.

    I honestly hope Google will not change its trajectory because sooner or later, people will get fed up with their bullshit.

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      Yes, I like the direction Google is going. More people need to favor non-profit software.

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      I paid for YouTube premium for quite a while but cancelled because it wouldn’t stop recommending the same video I’ve “not interested” for too many times, and also for pushing far right propaganda and pseudo science when all I watch is gaming related content and some space and engineering content.

      Browsing the Internet without add blockers literally breaks the pages and makes one vulnerable to malware.

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        Would you like to rewatch this video you already watched? i even removed the fact it has been previously played?

        No? How about now? Or now?

        Sometimes youtube’s recommendations are excellent, serving interesting woodworking or tech videos, other time it just shovels me the same drivel over and over.

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          My current feed is 4 videos that I’ve already watched completely and the red bar is still full, but I get a lot of already watched videos where the bar resets as well. Then it’s a bunch of videos from 14 years ago. These old videos started appearing earlier this year and I get a lot of them since, besides clicking ‘No Interest’

          Then there’s one or two videos that have been there for months in my feed that I’m afraid to dismiss because I like the general topic just don’t have interest in these particular videos.

          And then from time to time it it shines for a day or two and I get interesting stuff that disappears as quick as it came.

          One thing it’s getting better at recently is showing me long videos that are over an hour instead of the under 15 minute ones.