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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (16 children)

One big life-changing thing will be something like Manifest V3, limiting ad-blockers capabilities. 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

Rules for thee and not for me kind of stance when it comes to who is collecting all the sweet data from its users, it wont be possible to block every tracker and ad from Google in the future because every add-on will have a limit of how many domains they are trying to block.

I mean what could possibly go wrong if the biggest data collector and ad provider has a monopoly on web browser?

Why is it bad to use chromium base browsers? If the market is essentially only Chromium and Safari, Firefox compatibility will be even less important and broken sites will only lead to a bigger monopoly because users will switch.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (15 children)

And people still support and use Google search so the monster just continues growing.

I guess we get what we deserve as a species.

[–] BrokenToshy 4 points 1 year ago (14 children)

I've tried to move away from Google search so many times but honestly it's just too convenient..

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

Kagi did it for me. I set it as default search engine when it was new, and I actually forgot about it. Thats how good it is.

It's the same results as Google, just ranked differently so you don't get all the junk. You will discover lots of new web sites that are quite good.

Try it!

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