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Fortunately, this is easily avoided by not using Chrome.

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Common Firefox W

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It would be best to make the switch today. That has the dual benefit of a) Showing Google that they will lose users, and maybe they will change their mind (again), and b) Show every website that they do need to put actual effort into supporting and testing against Firefox.

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Best? Better than not using chrome in the first place?

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It’s been easily avoided for years now despite alarmists saying ad block would stop working as far back as 2020. I don’t even have an ad blocker installed on Vivaldi and the built in blocking has worked just fine, even the other day when people started having issues with YouTube V just kept doing its job.

I’ll believe it when I see it, and the day it happens I’ll switch to FF. Until then I’m not going to reduce the user experience with this armchair virtue signalling that you all pretend is making a difference.

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So… You’re already not using Chrome…

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Vivaldi is based off of Chromium though

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That depends heavily on who you ask, around here.

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Good. Firefox is the answer.

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For me, the future is Firefox and Linux.

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Yeah but putting all our hopes into Firefox is quite dangerous. All Google needs to do to fuck us over is to stop funding Firefox.

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Recently made the switch from Edge to Firefox to fully ditch Chromium. The more I read, the more I realize it was a great decision.

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why were you using microsoft edge?

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I liked it. Found it better than Chrome for my needs to finally get away from Google. I hadn’t realized I went from Chrome to Chromium. Within a year, I am now switched to Firefox. After theming it and stuff, I’m now liking it way more than everything else. It does everything I need and looks beautiful.

I also enjoy Firefox Focus on iOS which is basically incognito on steroids. Any time I click a link, it defaults to FFF.

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It’s better than chrome. Smaller memory footprint and a bit faster. Source: I’m web dev.

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In other words, these older extentions work just fine, no one wants the new limited features, and google is force disabling older extentions despite any outcries from its users because it can.

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🎶No they won’t because I don’t use chrome 🎶

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