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Google is already pushing WEI(DRM Webpage) into Chromium (github.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Oh boy, it's happening. Google is flexing it's muscles and abusing it's market position. It has never been a better way to convince and support family and friends in moving across to Firefox, a fast and privacy supporting browser.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I've been mainly using firefox on Windows for ages now, but switched my phone today. I'll still need them because Japanese is a hard language and I need my Google Translate sometimes, but all other things go through FF now.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Eh? What is about accessing Google Translate via Firefox that you dislike? I've been using (sparingly) Google Translate via Librewolf (a fork of Firefox) and I haven't experienced no problems with it.

Or are you talking about the Google Translate mobile app? I wish there's a good alternative to it too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If there's a way to get google translate (or deepL or something; I'm not picky) in firefox, I don't know about it. There might be a plug-in or something, but Chrome has it out-of-the-box whereas firefox has no such option.

[–] Zpiritual 3 points 1 year ago

I use https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/traduzir-paginas-web and it's good enough for me. I usually just disable all of it's translate button except the right click menu ones since I tarely need it but it has options like autotranslating specific websites and more.

[–] TheDarkQuark 2 points 1 year ago

There is an alternate frontend to Google Translate though. It's called Lingva Translate.

https://github.com/TheDavidDelta/lingva-translate

It has also got the voice over thingy.

For androids, Lingva has a FOSS app, called Lentil Translate (I believe it's not official), which you can easily find on F-Droid. Personally, the translations in the app seem a bit slow and buggy to me, but it works like a charm in the browser.