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It’s fun to see capitalism doubling down on itself. 🫠

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Life finds a way

Yarr

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I hope **chrome **fails terribly. Just like Internet Explorer(IE). Firefox all the way

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Anyone still using Google products is a fuckin idiot, IMO

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OK, then let’s check my idiocy.

  • Web-browser? I’m using Firefox since the beginning of this year.

  • Email? I’ve an account on ProtonMail for serious stuff, and Gmail for garbage, less serious stuff and spam collector.

  • Cloud storage? Well, unless anyone can gift me a Raspberry Pi, a hub and an ELI5 Nextcloud manual for dummies, I have to keep using Google Drive.

  • Videos? That depends. I’m watching videos on Youtube, but I’m uploading my own content on Peertube.

  • Phone? I need another ELI5 custom rom manual for dummies, and it has to be specific for my device. Otherwise, I’ll keep using Android, but with most minimum usage of Google apps.

I think that’s all.

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I agree, as I reply on my pixel6 pro

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So basically every software/front-end web dev? Lol ok.

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Pixel phones.

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I’m sorry but this sentiment is so utterly detached from the technical capabilities and general engagement of the average layman that it bears a response.

Tech savvy people have this awful habit of calling anyone not in our specific field an idiot when they don’t do things our preferred way, and it’s not a good look. Those people aren’t the weird ones, we are. And if you’re the sort of person who thinks you’ve elevated yourself above the commoners because you don’t use Google’s stuff … yeah, that and 5 bucks will get you a latte. There are oceans of professional expertise you’re not privvy to, and unless you really think you’re doing better than everyone at everything, a little humility, temperance, and grace for others is warranted.

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So you don’t have an android phone I suppose?

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I just wish Firefox would improve their UI and add a few features without needing to rely on extensions (tab groups, vertical tabs, sharing tabs from mobile to desktop, etc.).

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Are we seriously sitting here, in the shadow of the open internet’s apocalypse, complaining yet again about Firefox’s UI?

It’s like Superman trying to rescue you from a fire and you complaining about his breath.

There’s no UI in the world that will make the internet bareable without functional ad blockers.

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I can send a tab from my mobile Firefox to my desktop Firefox by default, so that’s at least one of those that doesn’t need an extension.

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They do have the send tab to device feature. I send tabs to my son, who lives with his mom all the time.

As long as the devices are connected to the overall Mozilla account. Same between my phone Firefox and PC.

I don’t have too many tabs that I would group together, but I can see how nice of a feature that would be.

I’ve used Firefox from the beginning and never trusted Google and Chrome. It has gotten better, but at a slower route.

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Firefox already natively supports most of the features you listed.

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Hey you have genuine wants and needs from a web browser and I respect that.

I’ll say though that this sort of attitude (well Chrome has this little thing I like so I allow them to take control of what was once the independent internet) is what is going to screw us.

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Any tab group extension recommendations? Having issues finding good ones

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Mozilla I think gets millions from google. At least they did at one point in a deal to set google as a default engine.

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They do. The majority of Mozilla’s funding is from Google. That said, they’re still our best hope. I’m sure Firefox has constant internal conversations about how to handle their relationship with Google, and they probably have standing offers from many others to switch to a different search engine.

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Except when it doesn’t. That saying never made sense (far more species have gone extinct than exist today) and it doesn’t apply here.

Piracy will continue, obviously, but what we’re seeing here is the creation of an internet we can’t even fathom yet. This is just where it starts.

Also consider how much more difficult it will be for the average person to participate in piracy. Remember a few months back when Microsoft floated they were basically looking to lock down windows? No unsigned apps, no win32, etc. People will get around that, of course, but fewer people will. Especially if they continue with this trend towards stripping options and de-admin-ing all users unless they pay for an enterprise license.

Then there’s the dangerous trend toward encryption being broken by regulation and possibly even VPNs being rendered useless for anyone but businesses. There goes secure torrenting.

The trends don’t look good, across the board. We can’t just sit here and hope it all works out and the loopholes are found, like it always has before.

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I am by no means saying we should passively hope that things will work out. What I am saying is that we have no reason to be defeatist. In the same time that we’ve seen aggressive pushes for a more locked down internet, we’ve seen dozens of open source projects to fight back.

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It’s my right to have my personal computer display what I want it to display. It’s my right set my device to reject internet traffic I don’t want to receive. It’s my right to instruct my machine to download the data I want, and refuse to download the data I don’t want. If you make something publicly available online, then the public can consume that or refuse that, in part or in whole, as and when they wish. If a company or a browser wants to try and interfere with that, then they’ve chosen their fate.

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Monzo? Hmm

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Google and Chrome really need to be broken up. Maybe people should start writing (physical) letters to the FTC asking to review Google’s recent actions as monopolistic behavior.

It wouldn’t be the first time. But showing the interest is the best way to get the ball rolling that we can do.

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How does one do that?

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I didn’t include details because I still had to research after the comment, but this page details several methods of contact. The antitrust email looks like a good place to start if you don’t want to mail anything. But physical mail is harder to ignore, it actually has to get into someone’s hands and be dealt with. So I’ll try to write up a letter and send that to maybe the regional office nearest Google’s HQ.

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Have people not been trying that for years already? How do we know if there’s a good chance that’ll even do anything beyond get tossed in the trash? ~Strawberry

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Honest curiosity on your answer to this.

Google is the developer of Chromium and the Chrome browser which uses Chromium. Chromium is free and open source (though owned by Google).

I’m not sure how you break up Chrome and Google. That’s literally their product. Who are we giving this to? There are browsers that do not use Chromium (e.g., Firefox and Safari being the big ones).

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Spin it off on their own and survive like Firefox. Browsers make money putting links in the homepage and adding search engines.

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Companies have gotten broken up before, like AT&T once did many years ago. In this case, a Google breakup would probably separate some of their services into different companies. At the very least Google (the “advertising” company) should be separate from Chrome (the “browser” company), because it creates a conflict of interest and creates monopolistic behavior.

In any case, trying to do something is better than doing nothing and hoping it turns out all right.

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I think the poster is making a good point though- In this split, google the advertising company can freely contribute to the open source chromium. You need some model that leads the chromium maintainer to reject changes like this.

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Google isnt Google anymore. It’s Alphabet. Alphabet includes Google domains, Android, Gmail, YouTube, chrome, Google search, search ads, play store, fuscia, Google maps, authenticator, chat, classroom, assistant, meet, nest, pixel, waze, Gboard, messages, google tv, Google photos and the rest

Each one of these have their own presidents, their own boards, their own teams. They are all directed by Alphabet.

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Google is such a bad company. People should discontinue use of all their software and at the very least stop using chrome or chromium. They’ve got the internet by the balls.

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I still remember old days, when most coders used to praise google. Their services were amazing and I think one of their old principle was >“Develop good products first, think about monetisation later”

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And now it’s later.

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I wish google was as good at procrastinating as I am.

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When Gmail debuted and it was invited only 😊

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Their old principle was ‘don’t be evil’. The fact they no longer say that tells you everything

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Somewhere, sometime, there was a meeting at Google where they decided that value would be dropped.

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Google sucks for sure, but I keep seeing this claim that they’ve removed “don’t be evil” from their code of conduct.

It’s still there, it’s just no longer the main motto and has been moved from the preface to the conclusion.

You can read it yourself; “don’t be evil” is literally in the last sentence verbatim, lol: https://abc.xyz/investor/google-code-of-conduct/

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That’s before they went public

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You think they acted alone?

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They acted.

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That’s petty as fuck. I’m an ex google eng and it’s not up to us what we work on. We get paid to work on shit and if we don’t do it someone else will. Plenty of resumes in the pool ready to hop in and take someone’s spot. Blame the company not the people doing the grunt work.

It’s like blaming the barista for the menu.

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I fail to see how the engineers building the technical side of this are relevant to this case. It’s not their decision to put this into Chromium or not.

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True, it was not their decision, but they had the choice to show google the middle finger.

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The next person would do it then. I don’t see that as a solution.

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You always have a decision. Especially when you’re a highly qualified engineer that could choose to work somewhere else easily.

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You say that like it’s easy to deal with a sudden loss of income and the potential that their living situation will radically change before they land that new job. I can’t imagine that working at that level leads to particular quick interview and hiring processes.

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Dude they’re not murdering people they implemented tech use a new browser

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Lmao yoavweiss seems to have recently broken the 4 year hiatus on his personal blog to make a new post about how the discussions around this retarded proposal are not constructive enough.

The most constructive that can ever be said about this is “fuck right off” dude.

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Please don’t blame the people who were forced to implement this. There are engineers to blame behind all shitty tech in the world. They’re just trying to work a job. There aren’t exactly a lot of jobs in the tech industry where you don’t work for some of the evilest motherfuckers alive building unimaginably evil stuff. I’m all for directing as much hate, vitriol, credible threats of violence, etc at the people on top, but let’s leave the poor sap who they forced to do their dirty work alone.

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