okay but can firefox fix GPay and all that
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Shame for anyone still using Google Chrome.
Finally, thanks God.
Cut the umbilican cord a couple months ago. Wasn't inconvenienced in the slightest.
I use Waterfox for almost everything because it has that Chrome feel and speed to it.
I do, on occasion, use Edge for websites that do not play nicely with Firefox. Most of those tend to be government websites, which unfortunately I have to deal with from time to time.
I use Helium for those websites
Not sure what this is. Can you provide a brief synopsis?
I really like Iceraven on mobile.
Firefox for two decades, got tired of Mozilla's bloat and their "AI first company" announcement was the last straw, Waterfox has been great. :)
Pichai. Remember that name.
That fucking banchode running Alphabet.
Remembering that name is pointless. He is an out-of-touch oligopoly CEO indistinguishable from every other out-of-touch oligopoly CEO. They are completely interchangeable to the point where it makes no functional difference who's running the companies.
The system that creates the oligopoly conditions is the enemy you're looking for. Directing your ire at the CEOs themselves is useless and one of the reasons they exist: soak up blame so people rail against the CEO instead of trying to fix the underlying problem.
This isn't really news. Anyone who cared and was able to do so isn't using chrome anymore. They could add back what is needed for ad blockers to work and it wouldn't bring back enough people to matter.
Why are people using chrome?
Why did people use Internet Explorer before it?
It's just "the internet button" for most people, the same as Windows is just "the computer" and Android is "the phone".
The idea that you can change out fundamental software components of a modern computing device is alien to them.
"People" have no IT knowledge. They use Chrome because they recognize its icon as the one you click to make web sites happen. They have practically no knowledge of it beyond that, including that there are other options and the reasons why they might prefer those.
When you use Google services there's a very annoying popup "why u no use Chrome" that appears at least once every three week and you can only choose between "ok I give up, install now" and "no, ask me again for the 134th time"
Or you could just stop using google services?
I have seen that on Firefox one time in 3 years
It appears almost every single time I login to gmail
I only have it installed so I can configure my Keychron keyboard.
Integration and convenience for those people. Literally a closed wall garden environment much like iOS, Windows, or Facebook.
The majority of people just can’t fucking be bothered, don’t fucking care or are completely unaware that there are other options.
Yes, there are options, but some of those people see them as inconvenient.
Pretty much this. People on the fediverse generally forget how ridiculously non-tech savvy the public at large is, moreso the underlying issues with things like AI, tracking, etc.
And even if the public does know they can just shrug and say “so what?”
People don’t know, don’t want to know, and can’t be bothered if told.
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Make it the end of Chrome instead.
Haven't used chrome in years. The closest I've been to it is Brave, and I only use it when shit doesn't load on LibreWolf or IceRaven.
Afaik Brave was or is headed by alt right guys, have shit-ton of garbage in there and hence I moved to Firefox.
Switch to firefox.
get a pihole
adguard home is a great alternative
I would so love if this causes an usage spike for Firefox, so that all websites and webapps start testing for Firefox compatibility again...
The install counts for ad block extensions is surprisingly lower than you'd think.
uBlock only peaked just shy of 30M users, so much less than 1% of general users. Obviously it's not that cut and dry, but you get the idea. It's unlikely they have much influence no matter where they go.
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Misleading headline, as UBlock Origin Lite will work.
….Which is what the vast majority of Chrome users would be using now anyway. Using full Ublock requires a ton of manual hoops (or a Chromium fork) already, and basically no one using plain Chrome at this point is gonna do that.
Not that this is okay.
I’m just saying it’s misleading. Full Ublock has already been evicted from Chrome for like 99.99% of its users, and sadly, they didn’t seem to care.
i like a little bit of aids
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Don't use Chrome
If only there's a different web browser one can use... 🤔🤔
Who the fucking fuck still uses stock Chrome in 2026, chrissakes.
everyone’s parents methinks. i got mine on chrome 15ish years ago and now they won’t stop. “but you’re the one that told us to use chrome…”
i get that a lot. it’s as if they cannot conceive that things that were once good can become shitty. enshittified if you will.
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The Firefox forks that I use:
- LibreWolf ships with uBlockOrigin by default.
- Zen browser for power users who want lots of out of the box features and customization. An especially excellent browser for users who migrate from Vivaldi. Caveat, as with most feature-rich things, the line between bloat and feature can be a bit blurred.
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