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   Kerchief (kerchief7592@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 21-Jul-2023 05:27:28 JST Kerchief

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   • Thomas 🔭🕹️
   • WMK
   • blhue

   @blhue @WeiMingKai @thomasfuchs guys, Brave is built on top of Chromium. If Google pushes this it will be in Chromium first. Even if it’s not using a direct Google product, it’s giving them power on how they can dictate stuff on the web. Edge, Vivaldi, Opera etc are build on top of chromium
   You can switch to Firefox if you want to ditch them

   https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium

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     blhue (blhue@universeodon.com)'s status on Friday, 21-Jul-2023 05:27:31 JST blhue

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     • Thomas 🔭🕹️
     • WMK

     @WeiMingKai @thomasfuchs Agreed! I wrote off Google and all its services many years ago and have had nothing but good experience using #brave #browser and #duckduckgo for the past many years. It’s a nice feeling.

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     WMK (weimingkai@mastodon.online)'s status on Friday, 21-Jul-2023 05:27:32 JST WMK

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs
     I recently started using DuckDuckGo

     It’s a more relaxing way to browse and watch because it cuts back on a bunch of nonsense and #enshitification

     So maybe give it a try if chrome is going to start behaving like Elno owns it

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     Digital Medicine Peddler (wanderingindigitalworlds@mstdn.games)'s status on Friday, 21-Jul-2023 06:46:19 JST Digital Medicine Peddler

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs Ugh, this is troublesome news...I don't want to support Google in their time of being a massive asshat.

     I need to investigate alternatives that work well with my Google 2FA and Password less Sign-in. I'm a bit too tied to their ecosystem right now. 😭

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     EndlessMason (endlessmason@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 21-Jul-2023 07:13:58 JST EndlessMason

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs not destroy, enclose

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     Jon F (avonvilla@aus.social)'s status on Friday, 21-Jul-2023 07:39:44 JST Jon F

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs But if you even use youtube you are still supporting utter shit, because google owns it. Come on Thomas, you can do better than this!

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     Jeremy Kun (j2kun@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Friday, 21-Jul-2023 07:45:38 JST Jeremy Kun

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs the explainer explicitly says "don't interfere with browser plugins". Where'd you get the "kill ad blockers part" from. You think the doc is lying?

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     Jon F (avonvilla@aus.social)'s status on Friday, 21-Jul-2023 08:07:46 JST Jon F

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs No alternative? Sounds like you are bowing to the mightiness of the unstoppable google. Better to say, "don't watch youtube, don't upload to youtube". If you ignore things like peertube, why even bother being on mastodon. You could equally argue there's "no alternative" to twitter.

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     Greg (theaspiringnerd@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 21-Jul-2023 08:14:17 JST Greg

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs does that apply to all Chromium based browsers too?

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     Father Enoch (fatherenoch@mastodon.online)'s status on Friday, 21-Jul-2023 10:15:21 JST Father Enoch

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs

     What if you use #Brave?

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     Scott Starkey :verified: (scottstarkey@clj.social)'s status on Friday, 21-Jul-2023 11:27:58 JST Scott Starkey :verified:

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs
     This is causing me to investigate deGoogling.

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     Rev. Kellyn Delgado (kellyn@friendo.space)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jul-2023 02:28:06 JST Rev. Kellyn Delgado

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs Please don't throw ordinary users under the bus with this. Boycotting Google will do nothing to stop this for one and two, people can't just stop using Chrome just because Google does bad shit. I use a Chromebook but I DO NOT support this!

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     Codrus 🇺🇲 (codrusofathens@linuxrocks.online)'s status on Sunday, 23-Jul-2023 01:22:30 JST Codrus 🇺🇲

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs Hey Google, isn't your motto DON'T BE EVIL?

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     marathon (marathon@fosstodon.org)'s status on Monday, 24-Jul-2023 23:27:20 JST marathon

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs What about Brave? Have they managed to get around this with their blocker set on say, strict?

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     marathon (marathon@fosstodon.org)'s status on Monday, 24-Jul-2023 23:33:25 JST marathon

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs OK but don't you agree that even they, can take privacy/security seriously? I mean in the end it shouldn't be about politics but about the quality of the technology. Otherwise one is just as fascist in thought/dogma.