• xe3@lemmy.world
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        Google is in the process of undermining the effectiveness of uBlock Origin and other adblockers on Chrome and other Chromium browsers. I believe that change comes into effect this year.

        But even before those changes were announced, uBlock Origin’s creator and main dev has stated that uBO is most capable on Firefox.

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    I’m all for people using Firefox instead of Chrome, but RAM being used up shouldn’t be a complaint unless something else needs that RAM. If it’s there, it should be considered usable.

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      Damn… is this why I feel so empty inside? I’m using Firefox but no tail plug or furry action?

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              Google still has control over Chromium. Manifest v3 is a Chromium thing, not a Chrome thing. All forks of Chromium will get it and none of the browsers using Chromium as a base has moved to fork and maintain their own version of Chromium.

              This means that Google effectively has a monopoly over all browsers that aren’t WebKit or Gecko based, which is a tiny portion of all browsers. Leading to Google deciding how people access the internet. It’s already worrying that Google is the internet for a lot of people, the fact that they can do more or less anything with Chromium means that they can do whatever they want with the web standard.

              That should be a major concern for everyone. Chromium needs to be taken away from Google.

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                all browsers that aren’t WebKit or Gecko

                I don’t get this part. Are all engines other than those 2, based on Chromium?

                Perhaps you are forgetting Ze great Konqueror ?

                Because it has always been KHTML.

                There’s a meme for that. Check it out

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                  I think Konquerer is no longer actively maintained.

                  Fun fact (which you may already know) the two most popular browser engines today are based on KHTML)

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              But Chrome, the actual application you download (as well as several forks), is closed source.

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                  But that’s not the real issue. The issue is that any Chromium-based browser – open source or not – helps Google maintain hegemony over web standards. Even if makers of other Chromium-based browsers try to maintain a fork of the rendering engine, they’ll be perpetually playing catch-up removing user-hostile misfeatures because Google controls the upstream branch.

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      “I’m so used to getting fucked by Chrome and Edge that I just feel like something’s missing if I don’t.”

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    I was at a party a few weeks ago and when we needed to use a web browser, one of the first things that happened was one of the attendees taking the computer to install FireFox.

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    people don’t complain to get solutions, they complain so everyone knows how miserable they are

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      it’s chromium
      also they have done some shady stuff in the past and the ceo is a homophobe

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        also they have done some shady stuff in the past and the ceo is a hardcore homophobe

        It’s a boy-who-cried-wolf situation. Too many false homophobia accusations have gone around for be to believe any of them anymore.