Why Bother With uBlock Origin Being Blocked In Chrome? Now Is The Best Time To Switch To Firefox
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    • agent_flounder@lemmy.worldEnglish
      481·
      2 years ago

      That was Internet Explorer 20 years ago and look where we are now.

      I personally can’t remember the last time I had issues with a site on Firefox in the last few years since I switched.

      • rambaroo@lemmy.worldEnglish
        12·
        2 years ago

        The teams web app was borked for me on Firefox at one point. Idk if it’s still like that. Also Google Chat or whatever tf it’s called now disables a bunch of features on Firefox.

        Still worth it to switch. 99% of websites work just fine. They basically have to intentionally design sites to not work with FF.

        • Bogasse@lemmy.mlEnglish
          5·
          2 years ago

          Ah yes wtf is Teams doing!? Some arbitrary features are blocked on Firefox, like you can’t direct call someone but you can be part of a group call 🤪

          But I don’t think Microsoft’s online suite is a reference, most of it feels buggy or bloated at best.

        • Veticia@lemmy.mlEnglish
          1·
          2 years ago

          When I was using Firefox I felt like spoofing user agent was essential to make websites work the way they were supposed to. I could loose some rounded corners here and there but it was still better that some features completely missing

      • Eager Eagle@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        2 years ago

        Been using it for years, and the only few times I had issues was due to worthless websites creating artificial obstacles with an “unsupported browser/OS” page or banner rather than something actually breaking for being incompatible.

    • ysjet@lemmy.worldEnglish
      143·
      2 years ago

      I keep seeing this sentiment on these posts, often with a suspicious number of up votes that don’t seem to correlate how many up votes everything else in the topic get.

      Literally the only place I have EVER seen this issue was a state toll road website, which was using a timezones that didn’t actually exist but chrome added (and documented on the Internet to trick people into using it). A simple email to the website with an explanation and the correct timezones name and the problem was fixed.

      Pretty sure a lot of this sentiment is either astroturfing, or people passing on astroturfing trying to be helpful.

      • sfxrlz@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9·
        2 years ago

        Yeah, I’ve been exclusively using Firefox dev edition for the last 2-3 ys. I can’t remember one site not functioning properly apart from the odd visual bug from time to time.

    • The Giant Korean@lemmy.worldEnglish
      123·
      2 years ago

      I tried to bring this up as an issue back on Reddit, and I got downvoted into oblivion.

      I think sometimes switching your use agent to Chrome can bypass some issues.

      • dubyakay@lemmy.caEnglish
        21·
        2 years ago

        Make sure to only do that temporarily and only if it’s absolutely necessary. Otherwise just avoid using said website and look for alternatives.

  • Jenntron@lemmy.worldEnglish
    512·
    2 years ago

    It blows my mind how many people do you not understand how essentially useless Chrome is now and how much it has changed.

    • TangledHyphae@lemmy.worldEnglish
      18·
      2 years ago

      What I don’t get is that my browser experience is legitimately better overall, I don’t know what was keeping me from switching all these years. Familiarity perhaps.

      • tpihkal@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        2 years ago

        I had the same reaction. Used to love Firefox with all it’s awesome plugins but it took me soo long to go back to it. I just became so used to Chrome that the switch seemed daunting, although, I’ll admit it took a little while to get comfortable with it again.

    • Koordinator O@lemmy.worldEnglish
      62·
      2 years ago

      What about chrome is useless? What makes chrome so useless that a normie would want it to change? In the end both let you browse the internet just fine. from work i use Firefox and at home i had chrome for years. I did not recognise any diffrenses except ram usage and it beeing a Google product. I changed to firefox at home a few months back so it is the same at work and at home. Can’t say it feels any snapier or whatever. For a normie Privacy is no reason to change. They don’t care. Ram, they probably don’t even know what that is. You have to search for new extensions in the mozilla store if the same one you used does not exist there. That is the reason firefox will not dominate Chrome in my opinion. For a normie there is absolutely no reason to change and normies are the majority of people. Some anecdotal story. At work i installed for some colleges Adblockers because the said some of the ads where anoying and after i did in the following months one after another wanted me to deactivate it again because they could not figure out to visit some websites. As i offered them to show them how they could get around it they just denied. “that is to complicated for me.” So yeah. Normies do not care and even worse adblock blockers work.

    • ava@feddit.deEnglish
      713·
      2 years ago

      there are many reasons to prefer chromium based browsers, security being one of them

      am not saying that firefox is inherently bad, but that there are valid reasons to use something else. I know that this is considered a hot take on lemmy but it needs to be said

      • ilinamorato@lemmy.worldEnglish
        51·
        2 years ago

        On balance, though, since most people go almost exclusively to well-known, uncompromised websites that are legitimate and also trying to harvest data, privacy protections are more important. Defend against the attacks you know are happening and all.

        Besides, most attacks are social engineering these days, and even the most secure browser on earth won’t defend against that. The recent flurry of high profile YouTube account hijacks was accomplished via malware that stole session tokens from both Chrome and Firefox.

        • ava@feddit.deEnglish
          2·
          2 years ago

          both privacy and security are important and neither one is going to save you from a social engineering attack.

          and besides, trusting on your users to only go to well known websites isn’t something you should rely on.

          but yeah, I totally get your point

  • mlg@lemmy.worldEnglish
    332·
    2 years ago

    Remember when Firefox started dealing damage to IE’s insane monopoly, and then Chrome came along and shanked them both?

    I hope Chrome finally eats dirt after basically becoming knockoff IE 2.

    Literally every new HTTP standard is coming out of Google’s dev team. That is not a good thing.

    • ours@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      2 years ago

      As long as Chrome was convenient people preferred it. Now that they are showing their true face and squeezing it in favor of being more ad-friendly I hope people realize there are better choices.

  • kingthrillgore@lemmy.mlEnglish
    261·
    2 years ago

    Am I the only one concerned Google may try to pull a fast one and block Mozilla from using the Widevine DRM?

    • ilmagico@lemmy.worldEnglish
      23·
      2 years ago

      Time to boycott widevine and insist websites switch to an open standard … (though honestly good luck with that, Google might very well win that battle)

      • kingthrillgore@lemmy.mlEnglish
        18·
        2 years ago

        Not that easy since the W3C mandates everyone use Widevine or something similar. There was such a shitshow over this that the EFF pulled out of the org.

        Google has the internet by the danglies via this little whatsit and the W3C can do nothing about it, because Google accounts for a sizable amount of their funding, and dropping Widevine/EME would break everything.

      • ilmagico@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        2 years ago

        Also, Google could just more simply stop funding Firefox: Mozilla gets a lot of money from Google just to be the default search engine. Then again, maybe Firefox can switch to Bing or Duckduckgo, though I don’t know if those would pay as well as Google.

  • superweeniehutjrs@lemmy.worldEnglish
    181·
    2 years ago

    If you are concerned about things like PWAs like I was, try it out anyway. PWAs require a bit more setup, but are a lot more flexible in Firefox. For example, PWAs with http connections have a huge banner in Chrome, and just an icon in Firefox. Everything I’ve noticed is that firefox is just as snappy as Chrome

    • qaz@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      2 years ago

      I thought PWA’s didn’t work on Firefox. That’s good to know, because I’ve been using chromium specifically for PWA’s.

  • Danakin@feddit.deEnglish
    15·
    2 years ago

    Firefox is my daily driver, but oooh how I miss native tab groups like they have on most chromium browsers right in the tab bar. Extensions like simple tab groups just hit differently and are inferior…

    • uranibaba@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      I feel you. STG is the best addon I could find, I tried Floorp but it just was not the same thing.

    • UnfairUtan@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      I totally agree. Especially now that you can save the tab groups like bookmarks (experimental flag in chromium)

  • SmokeyDope@lemmy.worldEnglish
    142·
    2 years ago

    The people who know what UBO or a firefox even is is the vast minority. Google could single handedly completely fuck over the free internet and a majority still wouldn’t give a fuck as long as they get that sweet sweet one click convinence. The average consumer who plays on their phone and tappy taps on their laptop have zero clue how their devices actually work, or that there are more privacy friendly options. They just want their shit to work, privacy and daddy google violating their basic human rights be damned.

    Oh and also some websites make it a huge pain in the ass if you aren’t using chromium. I think its a bit of a conspiracy but could be wrong.

    Also stop shilling firefox and start shilling Librewolf

      • SmokeyDope@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        Nope only desktop. FF on mobile does have UBO available to install and I hear they are making plans to have all desktop addons be available on mobile at some point. I use kiwi browser for mobile. It is unfortunately chromium based but lets you install all the desktop adds from the chrome store including UBO

    • Ecksell@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      The average consumer who plays on their phone and tappy taps on their laptop have zero clue how their devices actually work, or that there are more privacy friendly options.

      Doesn’t this apply to most things? Phones, laptops, desktops…and cars, refrigerators, garage door openers, light bulbs, etc etc

  • SCB@lemmy.worldEnglish
    155·
    2 years ago

    This “article” is an ad lol

    The irony is real

  • miridius@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2516·
    2 years ago

    It would be nice to spend one day on Lemmy without seeing a half dozen posts telling me to switch to Firefox nor 100 comments on every post that’s even vaguely browser-adjacent about how ever since they switched to Firefox their life has been nothing but joy and rainbows

      • madscience@lemmy.worldEnglish
        34·
        2 years ago

        I’m using arch and Firefox. But I keep chrome as a backup because I also have a ton of nest devices… Is your mind blown?

    • Zacryon@feddit.deEnglish
      72·
      2 years ago

      I’m using Firefox basically since it came into existence and my life is depressing and sucks. But at least I can browse the web without being tracked so hard by Google and others while trusting on an open source project whose first priorities are its users and not profit.

    • Bulletdust@lemmy.worldEnglish
      31·
      2 years ago

      I didn’t switch to anything, I simply never stopped using Firefox as there was no pressing need to do so.

    • applejacks@lemmy.worldEnglish
      31·
      2 years ago

      agree, no matter what communities you browse, you just get repeatedly hit over the head with the same 5 topics.

  • sir_reginald@lemmy.worldEnglish
    61·
    2 years ago

    why the Freenet logo and not I2P? Freenet is not designed with privacy in mind, unlike I2P which literally stands for the Invisible Internet Project.