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Google is now moderating user's bookmarks and removing them. (lemmy.ml)

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

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I hate that I have to keep chrome on my machine because some sites I visit don’t work well, or at all, on Firefox.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I've heard a lot of people mention this recently and I must live a charmed life because I've never had this happen. There was I think maybe, once where I was having a problem with a site and it said that I needed to use a browser like chrome so I begrudgingly did and it still didn't work so I don't count that as an example and other than that, I've just never seen it. In fact I'm pretty sure it's not since about 2001 that I've seen any website give me shit with only working on certain browsers and that was sites designed to work on IE6 or something.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Just had it happen yesterday with the the students loan simulator. It wouldn’t work on Firefox and kept getting hung and freezing. Opened it in chrome and it worked perfectly first time.

It’s not common, but enough that I keep chrome installed for now.

[–] tehmics 2 points 1 year ago

I've used several sites that just won't scroll in Firefox. Coursera is awful for this and a lot of job sites seem to use the same library because they have the exact same issue

[–] devfuuu 2 points 1 year ago

When someone sends me links to instagram on my phone, firefox mobile can't play the thing, I'm forced to open the link in chrome to watch the video. There are lots and lots of websites and webapps that don't work or barely open on firefox. I'm forced to regularly open every week a few links on chrome/chromium on my computer as well. Although the amount as reduced a lot, some years ago it was worse.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Brave or ungoogled chromium are other options

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

both are still just chromium and as such still subject to google's bullshittery like amp, manifest v3 and web integrity