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[–] Matharl 152 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (18 children)

Or even better, a fork of Firefox which disable all that telemetry crap and bundle with uBlock Origin : LibreWolf.

[–] [email protected] 123 points 1 year ago (1 children)

uBlock Origin*

uBlock is the pseudo-malware that profited off of uBO's good name.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wow wow wow, care to explain ? This r huge news for me

[–] [email protected] 104 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The original dev handed over development to a team and left, new cunts removed his name from project and made donation links, original dev came back and made ublock origin which is now the best adblock out there.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago

I've only known ublock as ublock origin had no idea of this fiasco

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I learned about this years ago and the details are a bit hazy, but you may find this warning by the developers of uBlock Origin to be relevant.

There's also a "uBlock" extension available on Chrome that lists ublock.org as its website. From what I remember, AdBlock Plus and/or uBlock engaged in advertisement middlemanning. Essentially, they would let ads through to the end user as long as the advertisers gave them a cut and the ads weren't deemed "intrusive." I know ABP did this when I switched away, I'm not sure about uBlock.

uBlock Origin is a general content blocker, which puts it ahead of ad blockers anyway. You can configure it to block things like cookie popups too.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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[–] Treczoks 132 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Stumbled over that last week. There is a company where I buy nearly all my computer stuff from, and I'm a customer for more than 20 years.

I wanted to order parts for a high-end PC, but simply could not add the motherboard to the shopping cart. Everything else was already in there. I called them, and they asked me if I used Firefox. And they told me in no uncertain terms that Firefox was dead and would no longer be supported for "safety and security reasons", I should use Chrome or Edge instead.

If their site is too stupid to cope with Firefox, why the heck does it not tell me about this upfront, e.g. when I try to enter an item into the shopping cart?

[–] [email protected] 83 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I've had a few websites tell me to view their website in Chrome. I just leave, because no way am I putting any kind of personal data into a website run by such incompetent people.

I used to be a web developer. Back 8 years ago, you used to have to do a lot of special tricks to make your website look and function the same in all the browsers. Now, you really don't. Unless you're using some really obscure closed source codec or something, websites literally render and function properly without needing any browser specific code fixes.

There's no excuse, unless you're blocking older versions of every browser for security reasons, which is fine, because browsers update automatically these days, and it's very rare for someone to be running a really old version.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Usually the thing about the webpage not working is just codeword for "we have not tested it and we won't". If you really need to access it, there are some extensions that can change your user agent so the page thinks you are in chromium.

This is the one I use.

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[–] iInjection 18 points 1 year ago

That sucks.i am not going to not use Firefox, fuck chrome

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

Funnily enough, I can't log into my bank on chrome, but Firefox works just fine.

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[–] Skkorm 104 points 1 year ago (12 children)

Firefox rules, people need to smarten up. Hell, Firefox on Android has an Adblock extension. Firefox is what's up.

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[–] [email protected] 102 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (22 children)

Privacy is like the least important reason I use Firefox. With Microsoft Edge and Opera being based on Chromium now there are just so many of them. With Chromium essentially becoming the de facto standard because everyone uses it that means Google can ignore web standards and just do whatever they want.

[–] [email protected] 88 points 1 year ago (7 children)

It means Google can set the web standards, which is worse.

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[–] [email protected] 78 points 1 year ago (4 children)

websites not supporting firefox is the site's fault, not the browser's. firefox is not some niche browser. almost every website i have used is fine on firefox, and when it rarely doesnt work (usually bc i have a configured librewolf), i just open brave or whatever.

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[–] ieightpi 54 points 1 year ago (19 children)

Im really confused by this sentiment. Ive been using Firefox since like 2007 and I was just a teenager who didn't know any better.

Its been working fine for 16 years now.

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[–] Reygle 42 points 1 year ago (18 children)

Perhaps I'm missing something but I've been a Firefox user for years- at work and home. I have yet to find a website that misbehaves or under-performs. Mayyybe a few sites here and there a fractions of a second slower or have slightly less acceleration or something that I'm just not noticing?

Without Firefox and its ??forks?? like LibreWolf, the internet would be a total Chromium monopoly at this point, wouldn't it? That would be bad..

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago (14 children)

Wait, people hate Firefox? Why??

[–] IDatedSuccubi 18 points 1 year ago (17 children)

Chrome defaultism, and so websites are usually made for Chrome, often disregarding testing on Firefox completely, and so they work a bit worse here and there

Also no Google connectivity

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Chromium could be spying on you, as it communicates with google servers. You should use ungoogled-chromium, and hope they did a good job...

spoileror just use Firefox

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

"Firefox is bad because I got a virus one time and Firefox was my default browser therefore Firefox gave my computer a virus"- my brother

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[–] MyFairJulia 38 points 1 year ago (13 children)

If it really has to be a Chromium browser, Vivaldi will do the trick.

And if you REALLY take security seriously, LibreWolf is based on Firefox but without the annoying stuff from Mozilla attached to it.

[–] aggelalex 41 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Vivaldi a privacy respecting browser? It's closed source and barely has any concern on the matter.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

God, I wish there was less monopolies in the world, I hate when there is no alternative other than a product developed and maintained by evil corporation that profits off of selling my data.
Anyway, the only browser that everyone should use is Chrome, if you don't use Chrome you're dead to me.

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[–] GenBlob 26 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I use firefox for obvious privacy reasons but also because I can customize the UI. Chromium's interface is oversized, ugly, and locked down while on firefox I can change any aspect of it using my own CSS.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

I just prefer the UI of Firefox

[–] Tag365 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's Internet Explorer - Google edition.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (4 children)

After the quantum update i switched to firefox, as now in performance it is almost on par with chrome or sometimes better.

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[–] Clbull 18 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I think a lot of people turned away from Firefox after that Mr Robot promotional 'stunt' they pulled.

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