Comment on Here's what's happening to ad blockers in Google Chrome

FlavoredButtHair@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• LWD@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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  • teft@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Switching to what? Firefox. I don’t see the problem here. Install Firefox and forget those monopolistic enshitifying fucks.

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    • atx_aquarian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Image

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      • FaceDeer@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        But switch to what?

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    • LWD@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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      • helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I use Gnome BTW

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    • Aceticon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I went from Netscape to Mozzila and from Mozilla to Firefox and, guess what… my browser never fucked me up in the name of maximizing corporate profits.

      Google was already a wholly untrustworth Ad Company With A Tech Arm back when they invented Chrome, and shit like this was already back then a question of WHEN, not IF.

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    • Teknikal@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      My recommendation is librefox and if you really want a chrome based alternative I’d suggest Thorium (although I don’t know what thorium will do when this is implemented I’m hoping they don’t follow it.)

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  • ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    For anyone interested, as of November 2023:

    Web browsers using Gecko (Firefox’s engine): GNU IceCat, Waterfox, K-Meleon, Lunascape, Portable Firefox, Conkeror, Classilla, TenFourFox.

    Web browsers using the Goanna engine (which is a fork of Gecko): Pale Moon, Basilisk.

    Flow is a web browser with its own proprietary browser engine.

    The other active engines listed are: WebKit (Apple’s engine), and Blink (Google’s engine, which they forked off of WebKit, and which is used for Chrome, Chromium, and countless other browsers).

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    • dojan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’d no idea there’s a browser called Conkeror. That’s prertty funny since WebKit was based off of KHTML used in KDE’s Konqueror browser.

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    • viking@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Fennec is also using Gecko.

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      • helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        And Mull

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    • wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I use firefox, but Id never head of these alternatives.

      Anyone who does have reviews? Pros, cons, reasons to use them beside variety?

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      • krakenx@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Pale Moon still supports the even older extension model. I used it briefly until my extensions got updated to the newer format. I still kinda miss the old theme engine.

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    • Blorper59@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I thought it was pronounced Kay Melly-on, so I never tried it because of the silly name.

      Pihole will be unaffected.

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  • helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Every other Google Chromium fork will need to maintain an increasingly complex set of changes to the Google repository

    Yet infinitely easier than building a new browser from the bottom up

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    • LWD@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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      • helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I hear people say Chromium is bad for the web all the time but they all seem to think that Chromium = Chrome.

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