Oh boy, it’s happening. Google is flexing it’s muscles and abusing it’s market position. It has never been a better way to convince and support family and friends in moving across to Firefox, a fast and privacy supporting browser.
Today is the day I finally move to Firefox and away from brave. No chromium based browser is safe, and I just can’t do it anymore. Fuck google and fuck this entire money hungry system. None of this serves the user.
Makes me sick and sad for my kids’ future reality.
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I started the process of degoogling today. I am even switching peoples search engines at work to duckduckgo.
when the fuck are these bullshit fucking monopolies going to be broken up? They need to be broken up.
No government has the balls to act. More accurately, the lobbyists seem to be quite effective and the politicians often spineless and self-serving.
We’ll hit them where it hurts. Market share. Google, you’re no longer trusted to dictate web standards anymore. Websites must support Firefox as well as chrome. We need Firefox to have enough market share that companies wouldn’t risk losing x% of their userbase and therefore revenues.
How about brave?
It’s chromium and if people are using chromium, websites are going to be more likely to implement WEI. Google dictating web standards is the issue, and any chromium based browser keep that in place.
I’ve been mainly using firefox on Windows for ages now, but switched my phone today. I’ll still need them because Japanese is a hard language and I need my Google Translate sometimes, but all other things go through FF now.
Eh? What is about accessing Google Translate via Firefox that you dislike? I’ve been using (sparingly) Google Translate via Librewolf (a fork of Firefox) and I haven’t experienced no problems with it.
Or are you talking about the Google Translate mobile app? I wish there’s a good alternative to it too.
If there’s a way to get google translate (or deepL or something; I’m not picky) in firefox, I don’t know about it. There might be a plug-in or something, but Chrome has it out-of-the-box whereas firefox has no such option.
What does it actually do? And will it affect at all if I use Firefox?
Yes, I wrote a comment here on it but there’s some more technical explanations on other comments on this post
https://lemmy.world/comment/1740194
tl;dr: it’s basically DRM but for websites, also serves as adblocker/trackerblocker prevention that can’t be bypassed.
It’s up to the individual websites to use it or not, any websites I would use probably wouldn’t use it. Hopefully the only website I need to access that is not FOSS, my mobile banking website, won’t use it.
I fear it’ll start with banking and streaming and eventually get rolled out. I fear if we don’t block this at the start, it will eventually keep rolling. It’ll be like a snowball rolling down hill, we need to stop it getting on to the slope.
