Jeff Fortin T. (@[email protected])
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A list of recent hostile moves by #Google's #Chrome team; handy for sharing with your entourage, to explain why they should stop using #Chromium / #GoogleChrome and use #Firefox or #Epiphany as their main #web #browser : * The "Manifest v3" sabotage of content blocking extensions: https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/10/23131029/mozilla-ad-blocking-firefox-google-chrome-privacy-manifest-v3-web-request * The attempted sabotage of #JPEGXL: https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/chrome-banishes-jpeg-xl-photo-format-that-could-save-phone-space/ * #WebEnvironmentIntegrity a.k.a. #DRM for whole websites would hurt the web, #opensource browsers and OSes: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/07/googles-web-integrity-api-sounds-like-drm-for-the-web/

A list of recent hostile moves by #Google’s #Chrome team;

handy for sharing with your entourage, to explain why they should stop using #Chromium / #GoogleChrome and use #Firefox or #Epiphany as their main #web #browser :

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/07/googles-web-integrity-api-sounds-like-drm-for-the-web/

  • @[email protected]English
    4•1 year ago

    I’ve been waiting for a sign to switch and I think this is it. A few questions though.

    • Does Firefox for Android have tab groups like Chrome for Android?
    • Is Firefox Pocket like Chrome’s reading list? My first impression of Pocket was that it was a half-baked feature only really meant to serve ads.
    • https://ishoudinireadyyet.com/
    • fsniperOP
      5•1 year ago

      I can’t answer any of these. I don’t have the knowledge. I am not using Firefox on mobile, only on desktop. (opera mobile user)

      However what I can say is, you need to make compromises on some of your convenience to free yourself from a user hostile company’s software, or forks of it which strongholds you to their whims. Silicon Valley is trying to profit against your best interests.

      • @[email protected]English
        1•1 year ago

        Well I was planning to switch anyway for the reasons you just explained, so further moral rhetoric is wasted on me. I’m only asking those who do have knowledge in order to help ease the transition.

    • @[email protected]English
      4•1 year ago

      I haven’t used Chrome’s reading list feature, since I don’t use chrome, but they are competing “read it later” product, so should function vaguely similarly.

      Unfortunately I think your impression of Pocket is basically correct, it hasn’t received any meaningful updates since Mozilla bought it, and is very underwhelming product, it’s still baffling for example that Pocket (at least as a browser plugin) uses a different (and generally worse) reading view from the Firefox “reading mode.”

      That being said I haven’t found any “read it later” products I’ve actually liked using… (I switched to Wallabag after I quit using Pocket, but have used readability, instapaper, and the reading list feature of “The Old Reader”), so I just quit using the product category entirely, my replacement is “send to device” feature of Firefox so I can find articles on one device and send them to another to either view on a bigger screen, or a mobile screen. (I have a desktop, laptop, tablet and a phone… so this is very useful)

      • @[email protected]English
        2•1 year ago

        Houdini is a web API that Firefox has not implemented yet, hence the existence of such a website. I think I shouldn’t have asked about it here, but I’m still curious about it.