Comment on YouTube's ‘War’ on Adblockers Shows How Google Controls the Internet

ExLisper@linux.community ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Chobbes@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah and some of these people think they’re Brave and Edgy.

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  • bluuebunny@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I see what you did there

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• zingo@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Firefox for the win. Or Librewolf even better.

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  • Substance_P@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I love Librewolf, I just can’t work for hours using a browser that has dark mode disabled in order to preserve its privacy features.

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    • AphoticDev@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Because the dark mode that’s built into Firefox and other browsers sends requests to websites that can identify you. If you want dark mode on Librewolf, do as the devs recommend and get Dark Reader, as that’s clientside and doesn’t identify you, and works with pretty much every website, including ones that don’t offer a dark version.

      I use regular Firefox, and I have the default dark mode disabled and Dark Reader installed. I don’t need to ask permission from websites to use dark mode any more than I need to ask Google for permission to block their ads.

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      • Substance_P@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        that’s great! Yeah I understand the privacy implications but had no idea about Dark Reader. That’s why I love this community for answers like this. I’ll look into it as I’d prefer to use Librewolf as my daily driver.

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      • FrameXX@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        sends requests to websites that can identify you

        What requests. I though that only information that the browser gives to website regarding dark theme is that your preferred-color-scheme is now dark.

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      • Neon@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        the Problem is that Librewolf also doesn’t tell Extensions when system dark mode is activated, meaning you have to manually toggle between dark- and light-mode

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    • zingo@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Well some sacrifices has to be done.

      I use an add on called “Dark background, white text” or something like that. Less bloated than Dark Reader.

      Has to be somewhat usable while privacy oriented.

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  • xta@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Waterfox present!

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  • gothicdecadence@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Floorp is my fav!

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• MossyFeathers@pawb.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Imo this extends to chromium too. Google owns the source code and can pull it whenever they want. Sure, chromium browsers might be able to putter along for a little bit, but my understanding is that the reason why we’re now at Chrome/Chromium vs Firefox vs Safari is because Google shits out so many new “”“standards”“” and “features” that you need a large team to keep up. It’s supposedly why browsers like Opera switched to using chromium instead of trying to maintain their own source code.

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• yata@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Or any chromium based browser for that matter.

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  • ours@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Handing over Google the Internet standards on a platter.

    FireFox is not only awesome but a true competitor rendering engine.

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• some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is one reason why I don’t want the EU to force Apple to allow other rendering engines. Whether you think using Apple’s rendering engine on iOS is bad or good, it’s basically the only thing keeping Google from having complete control of the market.

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