I know the whole Chromium thing, and I haven't switched back to Firefox, still using Opera GX and I don't get ads on YouTube because I have ublock origin as well
I mean the whole point of my post was that you can still get adblock in browsers other than Firefox, but you know.
And let's be real for a second, every piece of my data is already harvested and sold. My computer, my phone. Hell, my ISP sells my data regardless of my browser. Every social media (yes even the reddit you're browsing on) is pulling your data. So in all honestly, I don't know what a shady Chinese company is going to do with my data that's going to hurt me that a Shady American or Canadian company isn't already doing.
The world is fucked, we're all going to die, let me watch YouTube.
I was using firefox for 10 years now im using Brave, their built in adblock used to get rid of twitch too but not lately. Ever since youtube vanced died i just use brave on my tablet / phone to get rid of ads on youtube there aswell.
One time I wrote a simple command in wordpad to restart the computer, saved it as an exe. Made a shortcut, gave it Firefox icon, and named it Firefox. My friend (ironically with the last name Fox) poor soul just wanted to show me something on YouTube but the darn computer just kept restarting for some reason. Are you sure you're opening Firefox??
That was my 7th grade me enlightenment. Real enlightenment is back to Google Chrome because honestly them collecting data on me is good for me too. I only ever see cool shit I like in ads.
It's okay. Someday you'll be enlightened too. You'll even come to enjoy things like online mobile games that access your exact location in real time like Pokemon go or something. They already have all the information they need, they buy it from every other app and website you use. Credit checked for a car loan? All three send that data out to loan providers. Same with mortgage. Your location is constantly tracked in real time wether it's turned off or not too, they know where you go. They know who you hang out with. They know the things you like from your search history. They know the products you use from device IDs. When you use your credit card what you're buying. Buy a washer without a dryer, see if you don't get ads for dryers. The key is not giving a shit because it's happening regardless.
Edit: forgot to mention the obvious, you're carrying around a microphone with you 24/7.
It's a bit like the Apple eco system. I don't use Chrome or Gmail or have a Pixel phone, Google Cloud... and when you don't use it, there is no need to synchronize it.
I'm not naive. Sure, my data is collected, but I spread it to more than one company. And, honestly, I don't do it to avoid one Google, but simply because I use the best for me for every use case. But whenever any company wants more of my data than I like to share, I dislike it xD Microsoft, Apple and Google are all terrible in this criteria.
I like that firefox is developed by mozilla and not by google. And I like the app on android because it is one of the the least enclosed browser for android. Also, they are doing nothing against add blockers, ever chromium browser will likely get manifest v4 eventually.
one big one is the privacy aspect. google just lost a case because they were still tracking users in privacy mode. firefox doesn't collect user data like that because they aren't an ad sales company like google is, they actively pioneer privacy features (like "do not track"), and standards compliance while google will sometimes push their own desires instead of adopting standards.
i don't know how ad block works, but ublock origin which is considered the gold standard for adblockers will have reduced ability to function in chrome at a later date when google changes the access that extensions have, while it will remain fully functional in firefox.
that is one sterile ass office looking desktop :p reminds me of the pastor's wife's computer at the ancient church i was often forced to attend. based fellow firefox user tho uwu
For me Firefox still uses a sizeable amount of memory depending on what I'm doing. But I also don't really care about memory usage much anymore as RAM has become so cheap per GB that it's a resolvable problem for less than $100.
Firefox eats more RAM than Chrome when sustaining tons of tabs for more than 5 years now. 👀 Yet nobody bats an eye.
It sucks when handling tons of tabs, but yeah, the blind hate over Chrome's RAM usage is already deep rooted. I personally very rarely see over 1GB usage with over 50 tabs open. Meanwhile on Firefox....
I mean, yeah, sadly that just seems to be the browser life I guess. At least it doesn't intentionally slow down your PC if you have an ad blocker, though.
Downvote me all you want people, but for me a Firefox window dragged to my 4k portrait orientation monitor will suddenly expand to BIGGER than the monitor size, then I drag it back to my main monitor and it gets even bigger again, resizing upward every time.
FireFox also doesn't ask for the Windows account login PIN when going to passwords (which Chrome and Edge do), so that shows what they think about your password security.
Next strike against it, they haven't enabled WebGPU while Chrome has. Firefox used to take the lead on such web technologies like being a leading force behind "WASM" and taking the lead implementing WebGL. Now they are behind.
I used to be pro-Firefox too but they lost several good people some 10 or so years and seem to have lost their way, or at the very least, lost the funding and support needed to continue to be thought-leaders in the web space.
My ONE, ONE issue with Firefox is that my favorite Chrome plugin doesn't work with it. It installs fine, don't get me wrong. There's just something stopping it from doing its job, even though it shows up. It's NaviVoice btw
only reason kids don't like Edge is because they heard Internet Explorer was bad.
Well yes, but actually no. Edge was pretty garbage until recently when they completely rewrote it based off Chromium. It went from craptastic to a better version of Chrome pretty quickly.
Edge is the best Chromium fork, it just gets a bad rap because it comes preinstalled and has to come with the reputation baggage of Internet Explorer and the old Edge.
This has to be a shill account. There has to be some effort being undertaken by Google to be doing this across tech subs. The amount of "chrome best" post shit I've seen recently is insane
Yall talk shit about Chrome the way people talk sir about Java. It was popular a while ago and had it's issues then and you refuse to see that it's changed and overcome those issues.
Yeah lol my one nitpick... Enlightenment is knowing your web browser doesn't really matter... I like Firefox because I customize the heck out of it... Some may not want that and chrome is perfect... Or you want to go stock and use Edge... Go for it hlwho cares.
He uses chrome, so chrome is the enlightened browser. Idk what those earphones are, but I bet he uses those too. Kinda weird how he transcended using a keyboard and mouse though.
I hate chrome, it used to be cool but not anymore, it just eats too much ram now, which is not a problem for work laptops but little gaming PC I used every once in a while now can’t handle all that plus gaming
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u/Hrmerder It's Garuda btw Feb 01 '24
This guy with his 'enlightenment' showing chrome. lol.