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[–] ieightpi@lemmy.world 341 points 1 year ago (22 children)
[–] danielton@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 123 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Sounds like they really want people to use Firefox!

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 70 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They fund Mozilla a ton on purpose. They want a small subset of people to use Firefox. It keeps them from the monopoly investigations

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2023-05-05/why-google-keeps-paying-mozilla-s-firefox-even-as-chrome-dominates

[–] danielton@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 40 points 1 year ago (11 children)

I knew about that. They also pay to be the default search engine on Firefox.

But my joke was that these changes make it seem like they don't want people to use Chrome anymore and switch to Firefox instead. If users knew about this stuff and understood it, Firefox would bounce back.

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[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 183 points 1 year ago (11 children)

Please, everyone, stop using Chrome. This is an easy vote with your wallet that doesn't even require your wallet.

Complacency means the internet gets worse, ads get worse, nickel and diming gets worse. It's the easiest chance to take a stand you'll ever have.

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[–] DeadNinja@lemmy.world 159 points 1 year ago (32 children)
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[–] phoneymouse@lemmy.world 114 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Firefox gets like 90% of its revenue from Google.

Keep Firefox independent and donate: https://donate.mozilla.org/en-US/?form=donate

[–] nintendoit@lemmy.world 55 points 1 year ago (2 children)

But donating your money can not make firefox independent.It will only make firefox more revenue.

Google wants to keep mozilla afloat to stay out of anti-competitive allegations.

[–] sep@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

If mozilla gets market share, google will defund them. That mozilla have a money will help.

Also mozilla's other projects are also good ;)

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[–] madis@lemm.ee 24 points 1 year ago

And the money won't go to Firefox, but Mozilla's other projects.

[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 85 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Firefox has been my go-to, but I've left Chrome installed just to have on hand incase some website fuckiness could be solved with a browser change.

Naw. It's not worthy of staying around even for that. Time to completely scrub my devices of google.

[–] WYLD_STALLYNS@lemmy.dbzer0.com 37 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Feeling the same, it’s surprising how many companies are just leaning towards screwing users for a few more pennies on the dollar. Eventually, Google with be the next AOL.

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[–] DreitonLullaby@lemm.ee 78 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The site you've linked to literally uses Facebook and Google browser trackers. Pretty hypocritical of them if you ask me.

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[–] paddirn@lemmy.world 77 points 1 year ago (3 children)

So my takeaway from this is to never use Chrome again? Gotcha.

[–] KillAllPoorPeople@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago (4 children)

If everyone who said they were going to do this actually did this, Chrome wouldn't do this, if that makes sense.

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[–] MossBear@lemmy.world 73 points 1 year ago (11 children)

For people who roll their eyes when someone mentions Linux and all of the free and open source projects adjacent to it (including Firefox!), this is exactly why many people value those things. We actually can have freedom in computing and it's worth pushing for. We don't have to roll over simply accept what Google, Microsoft and Apple want.

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[–] mariusafa@lemmy.sdf.org 69 points 1 year ago (29 children)

We have firefox, iceweasel, fennec (android). Anything else not firefox based is chrome based. Don't get tricked by opera and similars.

You can still change browser.

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[–] mojo@lemm.ee 63 points 1 year ago (3 children)

You guys are way to late to quit chrome, and you probably won't at this point. This is what happens when you don't swap, you enable this anti-consumer monopoly behavior.

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[–] JustZ@lemmy.world 62 points 1 year ago (25 children)

I change from Chrome to Firefox recently on all devices and it was a pretty easy transition.

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[–] yoz@aussie.zone 61 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (10 children)

Lol nice. People using chrome be like

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[–] Sygheil@lemmy.world 57 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Back in the old days when a software contains these crap, considered as adware/malware and people get their pitchforks.

Now: its normal.

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[–] TheDarkKnight@lemmy.world 51 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Every single thing about Google sucks nowadays. Great job Sundar, you successfully turned one of the former most exciting companies on the planet into one of the absolute lamest.

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[–] Powerpoint@lemmy.ca 50 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Switched back to Firefox. Easy transition. Fuck Google.

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[–] TheBlue22@lemmy.world 46 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Time to uninstall chrome. Can I move my passwords, bookmarks and saved data there? How do I do it?

[–] Mrduckrocks@lemmy.world 70 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When you install any browser (Firefox recommend) it ask you if you want to transfer browser data. It will guide you through (its pretty much automatic)

[–] tooLikeTheNope@lemmy.ml 40 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (13 children)

just adding that granted FF already has a decent password manager there are also reliable, free and open source and audited independent password manager like as

  • Bitwarden (remote service as basic or premium plan, optionally self hosted, user friendly service, very likely has some account migration wizard tool to help importing data from browsers) and
  • KeepassXC (local, user managed, a bit techy)

which both can plug in any browser through their respective extension.

Being both an independent option from the browser they help the user not making him vendor locked to his browser through his saved data.

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[–] Grant_M@lemmy.ca 43 points 1 year ago

getfirefox.com

[–] dinckelman@lemmy.world 42 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Now that Firefox is getting in-page translation capability, Chrome does not offer any features I am missing anymore. As long as they don't start performance wars, like the shit that happened with Youtube a while ago, I'll be fine

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[–] miffmaff@lemmy.world 37 points 1 year ago (16 children)

So as far as i know, firefox is the only mayor browser not based on chromium. Also, firefox is dependent on google's funding because of a search engine exclisivity deal. So my understanding is that, if google decides to kill firefox, they could easily do that. Well, what then? Is there any other browser left wich similar features that would be untouchable by google?

[–] Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

They couldn't kill Firefox without having the US government come down on them for monopoly. Which the government is already looking at https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/24/tech/doj-google-lawsuit/index.html , so it's not likely Google will risk it even further by shitting down funding to Firefox. Pretty sure they'll point at Firefox to claim they're not a monopoly.

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[–] randint@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 34 points 1 year ago (9 children)

I tried to preach why Google sharing your browsing history with ad partners is bad, but most of my friends don't seem to care. :(

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[–] NewAgeOldPerson@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Honestly, I was already using FF for my home. Made the switch on Mobile after seeing this on the news yesterday. I'm just one person though.

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[–] Idirian@feddit.uk 28 points 1 year ago

Not used anything but Firefox for the last 10 years or so. Can't remember how long I've used DDG for. Fuck Google and all who fail in her.

[–] 99nights@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago

It's lucky I haven't used Chrome in years. Firefox is much appreciated these days.

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

I should have never left Firefox when chrome came out. Its good to be back. Especially before any of this happened.

[–] autotldr@lemmings.world 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Unlike the glitzy front-page Google blog post that the redesign got, the big ad platform launch announcement is tucked away on the privacysandbox.com page.

The blog post says the ad platform is hitting "general availability" today, meaning it has rolled out to most Chrome users.

This has been a long time coming, with the APIs rolling out about a month ago and a million incremental steps in the beta and dev builds, but now the deed is finally done.

Users should see a pop-up when they start up Chrome soon, informing them that an "ad privacy" feature has been rolled out to them and enabled.

That's actually what started this whole process: Apple dealt a giant blow to Google's core revenue stream when it blocked third-party cookies in Safari in 2020.

Google says it will block third-party cookies in the second half of 2024—presumably after it makes sure the "Privacy Sandbox" will allow it to keep its profits up.


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