Google Chrome’s move to Manifest V3 for extensions is closing its final loophole and, with it, bringing the end of...
  • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    13 days ago

    Google Chrome’s next update will mark the end of popular ad blockers a large portion of the public using their vanilla product that stops ad blocking

    • elucubra@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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      13 days ago

      Brave is bullshit Malware.

      Use Vivaldi.

      Made by the people who made the original Opera.

      Hyper customizable, ad, tracking, and pop-up blocker by default.

      I’ve been a Firefox user since the days of mosaic. I used the original Opera for years, coming back to FF when Opera was bought by the Chinese. While I still have FF as my main browser, I’m now finding myself using Vivaldi about 50% of the time. Damn good.

      • ilovesaggytits:) @lemmus.orgEnglish
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        12 days ago

        Eh, Brave is good enough after you disable all the bloatware. The search engine is also good. It is my second browser after WebLibre (Gecko browser built from scratch)

    • MinFapper@startrek.websiteEnglish
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      14 days ago

      Their absolute and stubborn refusal to implement PWA made me give up on Firefox recently.

      I tried using Chrome for PWA only and using Firefox for my main browser for a while (to help their market share), but it made it very difficult because external links would open in Chrome.

      I’ve found like 80% of sites I use are self hosted so I found it easier to just stop using websites with ads than dealing with Firefox 😞

        • sexhaver87@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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          14 days ago

          Progressive Web Apps, a crack-pipe idea that allows you to install websites as if they were computer applications. Desktop entries, shortcuts, opens as a single window with no URL bar, everything to make it look like a computer application, but it isn’t. It didn’t take off because it’s not a very good idea, with no very good implementations. In my opinion.

          • MinFapper@startrek.websiteEnglish
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            13 days ago

            Because installing a native app requires an enormous amount of trust. Every native app running as your user has read access to all data created by every other app including browsers and their secrets like saved credentials.

            The Linux ecosystem mostly got away with this by being too small to be worth targeting. But several recent events (like the attacks on the AUR) have increasingly shown that we’ve passed the threshold where that’s no longer true.

            So, what am I to use when I don’t have the time to go through the source code of every new version of every single app with a fine-toothed comb? Well, browsers (while not perfect) have some level of sandboxing, doing an overall decent job of keeping websites’ (apps) data isolated from each other.

            Switching to use web apps whenever possible meant (at least, in Firefox) giving up a lot of the functionality of native apps (like default file associations, dedicated entry in the taskbar, and so many others). They’re basically refusing to acknowledge the open web as a platform that solves a real need: providing security and escape from walled-garden app stores (which is the bigger problem on mobile). Instead they’re spending their funding on AI, and VPNs, and random other features nobody really asked for.

            While I think it’s very important that there is more than one browser implementation in the world, I have 2 choices:

            1. Use Chromium fork to get security and convenience and privacy.
            2. Use Firefox (or its forks) to maybe get privacy at the expense of the other two.
            • sexhaver87@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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              13 days ago

              Viewing a web browser as the “open internet platform” is the crux of this issue that has gone unchecked for years. We turned a document reader into an application environment. This is the issue I have with PWA. A plastic bandage on a festering wound.

              On your points regarding sandboxing, I believe that should’ve been rolled into OS userspaces for years as well, and only developing the technology as it relates to web browsers is a huge oversight that has and will further lead to security issues.

              Not everything needs to be an application but building applications in a document viewer is a bit silly.

              edit: less cynicism; I want to take a moment to charade all the efforts gone into Linux distributions that take sandboxing and immutability seriously. They aren’t very good solutions either, but it all starts somewhere.