aeva
ars technica: we don't know how they did it but google chrome now extracts a pint of blood every time you log on
chrome user, dizzy from blood loss: I swear to god I am like this close to switching to firefox
another chrome user, on the verge of fainting from severe blood loss: no need to resort to that, just switch to [insert today's trendy chrome fork here] and be smart like meeee
aeva
@isagalaev normally I'd question the wisdom of putting too much trust in a social media poll but I haven't had a single enraged person in my mentions frothing about how firefox killed jfk or something so I think you might be on to something with this "[this corner of] mastodon is mostly cool people" theory of yours
Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:
@aeva funnily enough, I remember a poll on Mastodon (pre Musk migration) where Firefox turned out to be the majority browser, which surprised me a lot. May be it's time to run a new one.
aeva
90% of you are in this picture and I don't like it
aeva
@eljojo I'm just aghast at what chrome users keep demonstrating willingness to put up with, but then again [mumbles something about global warming and the pandemic]
José Albornoz
@aeva “and this probably still won't make people switch to Firefox.”
novatorine 🏴🏳️⚧️
@KeyJ @aeva in what way is Firefox not decent compared to Chrome?
KeyJ
@aeva I fully get and support your statement, and if a decent(!) Firefox-based browser emerges, I'll be happy to switch. Until then, I'll have to make do with a (comparatively heavily modified) Chromium fork.
In fact, that's maybe one of the reasons why Firefox is such a distant second to the Chromium family: It seems to be harder to fork and extend, for whatever technical or legal reasons. I can imagine that some of the Chromium forks out there would rather be Firefox forks if they could.
aeva
It's funny because the browser monoculture problem is like one of the few points in life where you can just change a personal preference and make an actual change in the world. It's like if voting with your dollar actually worked, or if switching to plastic straws actually stopped climate change. In the end though we're all gonna die because even something as simple and easy as this is just a bridge too far for people.
aeva
some of you people still read reddit and it shows. muting this
novatorine 🏴🏳️⚧️
@KeyJ @aeva I use LibreWolf, because Vivaldi, Opera GX, Brave, etc, all just inject their own spyware or stupid shit, and they all still contribute to Chrome's monopoly and therefore Google's de facto stranglehold on the web.
KeyJ
@anarchopunk_girl @aeva Compared to Chrome, it's indeed decent, I guess. I use neither, so I can't really comment on that.
However, there are certain Chromium forks with UI enhancements that really make a difference.
(I won't drop any specific names in this thread; that would be inappropriate.)
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