i never used Chrome(only Chromium) in years, i heard about this and its insane.
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Screaming that on lemmy is like running into a church and screaming about the "Wiles of satan"
You are literally preaching to the choir
There is degoogled chromium for pcs. I dont mean brave. I mean literally "degoogled chromium"
i use it for when certain web apps refuse to work on firefox or librewolf
I love Steam's built in browser(its useful) and Gmod's built in browser though :(
actually lets narrow down the problem with Non-Chromium, Almost all of them arent designed for embedding into apps or isnt ready for production/does not have all web features.
Awe dang. I have a theory that the more we push away their data centers they will recoup it one cpu\gpu at a time at the user-end. This is testing that feasibility.
Lol who is even using chrome still?
Edit: Yes guys I know, I am aware of the borderline monopoly Google has had on the browser space. My question should have been: Who is tech savvy and is using Google Chrome voluntarily?
I bet those numbers are inflated by work and school computers forcing it down your throat.
People who are forced to use it because web developers have abandoned non chrome based browsers in their testing and validation.
Tech savy people are ignorant as well. My colleagues are all into Meta, Google and stuff like that
Unfortunately I am. I really really don't want to be but somehow Firefox has turned into a buggy mess. Maybe it's just me but I have so many issues with it.
Dragging into a browser window doesn't work half the time. Trying to drag a tab nearly always bugs out the window resulting in no mouse clicks for tabs or address bar. Something screws up sometimes causing browser to flip to a random tab every time I switch back to a window, somehow related to pressing CTRL+ something. Sometimes the mouse cursor in a textbox/textarea screws up where it's not positioned where I'm typing, and I've even seen it go backwards while I type.
I have experienced these things often, albeit most of them only after having multiple windows open with many tabs. And they're not isolated to just one installation on one computer.
I'm just baffled how there can be so many consistent issues though. So much so that I can't justify using it over Chromium any longer, even with all of the issues with Chromium.
I've been using Firefox since the beginning, and I'm an adamant supporter of them. I really hope they get these things sorted out.
They install it on my work laptop without my saying so. I uninstall it every time, and until they explicitly ask me to use it, Iβm sticking with Firefox.
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Linux+grapheneOS to remove those spywares
Why Linux + graphene instead of Linux + GNU?
Because Java runs everywhere
Damn, if only someone, anyone, had ever warned against using Chrome.
weights.bin? So, what, Chrome got depressed and ate 40 cakes? That's terrible.
That's as many as four 10s!
Why the fuck is anyone still using chrome? Or windows for that matter. If itβs a work computer, whatever, I get it, but get that shit off of your personal devices.
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Oddly enough, Firefox never clicked for me but librewolf is dope.
The only browser I use for Lemmy
Still got firefox, mainly for making sense of youtube's garbage UI with my tangled cable of extensions whenever I happen to boot that shit up lol
The people willingly using a Google browser get what they get. This is a shining example of personal accountability.
most people are not aware of googleβs shenanigans, and even less are aware that there are better alternatives
why not help people discover these alternatives instead of being an asshole?
Most people refuse to use these alternatives. Atleast in my cases.
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Let's say I tried to show this to my brother in an attempt to make the boy degoogle and he went "Nah, I'm not a gigabite hoarder, they can have the 4 gigas."
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It's your laptop? You need to try not installing chrome on your own devices.
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