Notices tagged with chrome, page 7

If you still use #Chrome, you may want to know that #Google is limiting its extension capabilities because they do not like ad blocking. Google makes your browser to work against you by twiddling the buttons, as @pluralistic said. Work against this by using #Firefox a browser that will always be yours.

https://www.engadget.com/inside-the-arms-race-between-youtube-and-ad-blockers-140031824.html?_fsig=49gdw4DnMMDBCP3QkptZlA--%7EA

思想がどうのではなく、純粋に当時使えるブラウザが #Firefox だったのだ。そんで、Google #Chrome の挙動に慣れなければならないほどFirefoxに苦労はしていない

Gotta say it's impressive just how horrible the mobile web experience is for the #NFL website

I had to use #ESPN to get the complete box score after the NFL.com website on both #Chrome and #Firefox took about a decade to completely load and then proceeded to render like absolute ass

Three days ago, the 4th of November, would've been #KHTML 25 year anniversary. 🥳

Hoorrray!

WTF is KHTML?

Chances are you are kind of using it, because #WebKit and #Blink rendering engines are all forked from this open-source project originally intented for the browser of the KDE window environment.

That basically makes #Opera, #Safari, #Chrome, #Chromium and #Brave (and possibly others) all *siblings*.

KHTML is *literally* the mother of all browsers.

"KHTML is dead - long live KHTML!" 😀

@Gargron
I also use Firefox because it has its own engine - #Google otherwise has a monopoly with #Chrome, while #Mozilla continues to use #Gecko. And I mean, #Firefox is very fast if it doesn't have 200 add-ons running...

@Gargron The Chrome team has resumed the transition to Manifest v3 and explicitly decided NOT to support the the blocking version of webRequest anymore 🚫 (https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/chromium-extensions/c/X-aHqPOKcQU).

So from mid 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣4️⃣, extensions in #Chrome need to be based on #MV3 and will be limited 📉 in what they can do (the powerful content blocker #uBlock Origin can't be fully ported: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/wiki/Frequently-asked-questions-(FAQ)#filtering-capabilities-which-cant-be-ported-to-mv3).

#Firefox retains webRequest blocking in MV3 👍 (https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2022/10/31/begin-your-mv3-migration-by-implementing-new-features-today/).
➡️ Choose #wisely and spread the word!

Google announced that starting in June 2024, ad blockers such as #uBlock Origin will be disabled in Chrome 127 and later with the rollout of Manifest V3 (#Mv3).

The new #Chrome manifest will prevent using custom filters and stops on demand updates of blocklist. Only #Google authorized updates to browser extension will be allowed in the future, which mean an automatic win for Google in their battle to stop YouTube #AdBlockers .

#ManifestV3 is deceitful and threatening to your privacy, and now is a good time to switch to #Firefox (@mozilla) and/or #TorBrowser (@torproject) if you haven't done so already!

EFF (@eff) on Google’s Manifest V3:

⚠️⁠https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/chrome-users-beware-manifest-v3-deceitful-and-threatening
⚠️⁠https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/googles-manifest-v3-still-hurts-privacy-security-innovation

Chrome Manifest V3 Transition Timeline (2023-11-16)

🚩⁠https://developer.chrome.com/blog/resuming-the-transition-to-mv3/

Hey, remember when I said that #HTTP2's spec doesn't require TLS for it to be used, but de-facto it is necessary anyway because mainstream browsers like #Firefox and #Chrome will not support #HTTP/2 without #HTTPS?

Well I just realized now that thanks to #Mozilla and #Google's arbitrary limitations, they've actually made browsing the web with #I2P, #Tor (via onion/hidden services), and #Yggdrassil slower than it should be! The latency in Tor is so damn high that you essentially have to sacrifice speed if you're going to use an onion service that doesn't have an HTTPS certificate (which is unnecessary in the #encryption front because your connection to the onion is already encrypted!).

And I'm not even alone in this thought, look at this comment in bug 1418832 which never got a response from Mozilla.

Basically if you're a Tor hidden service operator, Firefox's devs are telling you to chalk up that $30 TLS certificate from harica.gr for the HTTP/2, and if you're operating a website over I2P or Yggdrasil, well "fuck your #privacy, get stuck in HTTP/1.1 lol"

I normally dunk on HTTP/2 (and personally I'm not even a fan of Tor) but this stupid decision by Mozilla as well as the equally stupid decision to drop HTTP/1.1 #pipelining means downstream (which Tor Browser is) will have to deal with this bullshit speed bump. HTTP/2's #multiplexing would've helped greatly in these average high latency situations!

This is why you never let politician-wannabes control your development

Google: #chrome exist to serve #google search

https://nitter.net/jason_kint/status/1717679983617810523

Ok that's a nice useability touch I just noticed about #Firefox.

When you have a long page/article open in a tab and you're scrolled partway down it, the task manager thumbnail for that tab is the TOP of the page with the title or whatever, not just a snapshot of what the tab is currently showing.

Kinda kicking myself for not ditching #Chrome years ago.

I quit Google Chrome after 15 years: Here’s where I ended up and why

#google #chrome #firefox #vivaldi #opera #browser
https://tchlp.com/3sk2hx4

I'm done with Google Chrome: Here's where I'm heading next

#google #chrome #opera #brave #edge #browser
https://tchlp.com/45J0UFQ

@interpeer @EU_Commission @EDPS @ombudsman @edri

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...however, is that we can ALL do something about it.

Stop using #Google's browser, #Chrome, and use the #FOSS browser of the #Mozilla Foundation, #Firefox, instead.

If many make this move, #Google will have to reverse the implementation in #Chrome, which I intend to uninstall on my PC shortly.

Time to also get a #DeGoogled #Fairphone, too, I guess.

/END

#ABB--#AlwaysBeBoosting

Source:
https://chaos.social/@interpeer/110779109841478926

@evacide EFF should be advising their followers to step out of the box that makes them the product. "Harm reduction" my ass.

I am no longer a follower, or a paying member. What I'm seeing lately is both moral and technical decline.

PS - Its hard to see an impact from EFF's fractional "harm reduction" when Google just shoved Chrome users into a new surveillance mode because too many were opting out of the old mode with blockers like uBlock Origin. If your workaround becomes popular, then #Google will react again with yet another scheme. That math won't add up. It is not reasonable to assume that Google is anything less than hostile to privacy at this point, but the EFF's behavior has been mollifying. #chrome

Doubtless your defenders here would dismiss all of this as some kind of FOSS purist pedantry, but it should concern you that their excuses sound like the old Internet Explorer hype of yore. With followers like that, something has gone wrong.

@dangoodin @airadam Buried lead: only affects #Chrome and Chrome-based browsers. #Firefox and #Safari not affected.

STOP USING CHROME
#Firefox #WEIAPI #Google #Chrome #AdPrivacy

Maybe it's time to ditch Chrome. This is how you transfer your bookmarks and passwords to Firefox, Edge, and Safari. https://tchlp.com/3Rgpfzt #chrome #firefox #edge #safari #bookmark #password

Chrome isn’t fundamentally unsafe. But if you’re worried about tracking, Brave is obviously the better choice, since anti-tracking tools are included and activated by default. https://tchlp.com/3RondNE #brave #browser #chrome #tracking #phishing #malware

Clean Up The Web!

Just got reminded of this little site I put together when Google had first announced FLoC – now Topics and in Chrome.

Developers, it’s up to you to clean up the web:

• Don’t make sites that only work in Google Chrome.

• Remove Google’s trackers from your web sites and apps

• Don’t legitimise Google (and other surveillance capitalists) by becoming dev advocates, writing for them, etc.

https://cleanuptheweb.org/

#CleanUpTheWeb #google #chrome #web #dev #SmallTech #SmallWeb