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Google looks to be fully shutting down unsupported extensions and ad blockers in Chrome – which might push some folks to switch to Firefox(www.techradar.com)

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garretble@lemmy.world
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Switch to Firefox? By Mozilla? The company that just said they are ramping up ads and AI garbage?

Good luck.

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psychothumbs@lemmy.worldOP
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Sadly Mozilla is not immune to following the dumb fads that run through Silicon Valley, but Firefox is still clearly the best browser option.

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garretble@lemmy.world
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I agree. I’m using it right now!

But they have certainly been outlining some poor decisions in the last few weeks.

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PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca
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Firefox is FOSS. Just use a privacy oriented fork of it :)

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Lauchs@lemmy.world
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So say I’m dumb and don’t know how to find a fork like that…

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PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca
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I would search “Firefox forks for privacy” or something like that

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1984@lemmy.today
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Compared to Google they are saints.

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Albbi@lemmy.ca
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Don’t be evil

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Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Sooooo ALL of the things google is doing even harder?

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Verdant Banana@lemmy.world
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or Edge which fully supports Manifest V2

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LWD@lemm.ee
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…For now. Looks like they’re going to get rid of it too (which makes sense, because they copy Chromium’s codebase).

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/extensions-chromium/developer-guide/manifest-v3

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where_am_i@sh.itjust.works
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for now

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Vaggumon@lemm.ee
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I switch to FF like 2 years ago

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daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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The trick is, I never switched to chrome.

I went from IE to firefox back in 2009 or so and never had a reason to switch. Firefox is a nice browser.

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kureta@lemmy.ml
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only if firefox weren’t pushing everyone back.

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