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   Antiqueight (antiqueight@mastodon.ie)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Dec-2023 06:10:58 JST Antiqueight

   Is there an idiots guide to why firefox over chrome?

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     John Brophy (jk001@mastodon.ie)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Dec-2023 06:11:55 JST John Brophy

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     @Antiqueight Habit, inertia and sick of Google being everywhere?

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     Davey (davey_cakes@mastodon.ie)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Dec-2023 06:27:00 JST Davey

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     @Antiqueight if it suits you more, mostly.

     I like it because I use a lot of extensions and I have it set up the way I like.

     It's slightly better than Chrome in terms of privacy, and if you like ad blocking*, Google are planning to start blocking such extensions soon.

     * It doesn't matter a whole lot which of these browser you use if websites are tracking you all they like. There are some "feck off by default" browsers like Brave and so on which block ads and tracking out of the box.

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     Antiqueight (antiqueight@mastodon.ie)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Dec-2023 06:29:11 JST Antiqueight

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     • Davey

     @davey_cakes Slightly better is good. I have a fair few extensions in chrome so I am slow to change but I will for ad blocking.

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     Davey (davey_cakes@mastodon.ie)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Dec-2023 06:29:57 JST Davey

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     @Antiqueight no panic on it til you start seeing ads everywhere really

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     Antiqueight (antiqueight@mastodon.ie)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Dec-2023 06:30:01 JST Antiqueight

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     • John Brophy

     @jk001 That doesn't explain the type of comments I'm seeing about it being time to change.

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     Antiqueight (antiqueight@mastodon.ie)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Dec-2023 06:30:58 JST Antiqueight

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     • Davey

     @davey_cakes Well, I'd rather be getting ready than have to make the jump after ads show up everywhere. I do NOT miss the old days of popups all over the screen...

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     Antiqueight (antiqueight@mastodon.ie)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Dec-2023 08:15:07 JST Antiqueight

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     • Steve Atkins

     @steve And Firefox is not behaving like this I take it? I mean, not being google isn't a reason to trust entirely

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     Steve Atkins (steve@deliverabilit.ie)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Dec-2023 08:15:08 JST Steve Atkins

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     @Antiqueight Google keep pushing features into the core code of Chrome making laughably unbelievable claims as to why they’re doing so.

     What they have in common is that they all reduce the users ability to influence what they see, giving the website owner full control, turning the web into something much closer to a broadcast / advertising / surveillance platform. Disabling ad and malware blockers is just part of it.

     https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/07/googles-web-integrity-api-sounds-like-drm-for-the-web/ - they seem to have paused this one, for now.