What web browser are you using, and why?

[Vasudev]

On 4/7/2024 at 9:04 PM, Etern4l said:

 

No honour among thieves I guess.

No honor can be expected from Sea of Thieves publisher.

[Papusan]

Alternative browser Arc is coming to Windows

• Software
• today 11:02

Arc has become a popular alternative to Chrome and Safari on iOS and Mac in recent years, and now the developers have released a Windows version.

[br2]

Chrome wouldn't run on x170 when I first got it, so I switched to Edge. I like it well enough. Firefox always struck me as a little clunky but i routinely have to use all 3 to fix something that works in one but not another.

[JeanLegi]

Changing to brave and testing it for me if i can survive with this :D

 

[Linux]

Firefox, what else? 😁

[Papusan]

Google's new AI summaries are getting advertising
https://www.sweclockers.com/nyhet/38868-googles-nya-ai-sammanfattningar-far-reklam

 

Anyone who thought that AI overviews could be used to get a quick summary of their questions without simultaneously receiving sponsor messages may be disappointed. No one who has followed developments in recent years should be surprised, however, as Google has been accused of degrading its own search service in order to make more money from users' searches.

[Papusan]

And google looks more and more as a disaster. You can't trust the search results with and from Chrome anymore.

 

Google’s AI Overview is a “disaster”

Google's new AI search engine AI Overview generates strange errors. The search engine provider is now deleting them manually.

[Papusan]

Google set to phase out Manifest V2 in a few days, breaking many ad blockers

THE YEAR OF FIREFOX: Google initially announced the Manifest V3 API in 2018, but the new extension technology was delayed several times because of the intrinsic limitations it imposed on ad blockers and security add-ons. Now that it is ready for release, Mountain View will begin phasing out Manifest V2 extensions in Chrome next month.

[crz]

I can no longer remember why I initially decided to go this way, but I have never had problems with Opera browser and it remains the main and most convenient for me. Now I want to try to interact more with Chrome and Firefox and I think it might also be a good choice.

[Papusan]

Firefox users are unhappy about new privacy tweaks

[Papusan]

uBlock Origin developer recommends switching to uBlock Lite as Chrome flags the extension

Taras Buria · Today

Google Chrome users with the uBlock Origin extension installed started noticing that the browser flagged the extension as "soon to be unsupported." Here is why this happens and what to do with it.....

[Papusan]

Google Created an Illegal Monopoly in Search, Judge Rules Pcmag.com

 

Google created an illegal “monopoly” by paying partners to make its search engine the default on today’s smartphones and mobile browsers, a federal judge ruled today.

 

“Google is a monopolist, and it has acted as one to maintain its monopoly. It has violated Section 2 of the Sherman Act,” wrote Judge Amit Mehta in a 277-page ruling.

 

Google is sentenced for illegal monopoly today 11:00

US court has determined that Google's search business is a monopoly. No penalty has been imposed, but Google plans to appeal.

 

The legal process, which started in December 2020 , has been long, but the verdict has now landed: Google's search and advertising operations are an illegal monopoly.

 

After careful consideration of testimony and evidence, the court comes to the conclusion: Google is a company that has used its market position in an illegal way to maintain its monopoly. They have violated the Sherman Act. - Judge Amit P. Mehta

 

Google plans to appeal, but if the appeal is unsuccessful, Google's search business is now officially condemned as an illegal monopoly.

[Papusan]

Google is killing one of Chrome's biggest ad blockers

uBlock Origin will soon stop functioning in Chrome as Google transitions to new browser extension rules.

 

uBlock Origin should continue to work fine on other browsers, including Firefox, Edge, Opera, and other Chromium-based browsers that support extensions, like my new browser bestie Vivaldi.

[Papusan]

 

I really like good news @Mr. Fox🙂

Google Faces A Revived Class Action Lawsuit For Accessing User Information Without Consent

[Mr. Fox]

17 minutes ago, Papusan said:

 

I really like good news @Mr. Fox🙂

Google Faces A Revived Class Action Lawsuit For Accessing User Information Without Consent

Awesome. I hope they get finanically raped by the litigation and left for dead. Then we can hope the same for lots of their evil accomplices in the tech space to suffer similar tragedies. We need to see some fortunes lost, empires ruined and some key decision-making people criminially prosecuted in order for a lot of this nonsense to get smashed for good.

[Papusan]

On 8/21/2024 at 11:24 PM, Mr. Fox said:

Awesome.

 

This is awesome as well. 

Mozilla extends support for Firefox on older Windows versions

You can continue to use the Firefox browser on older Windows computer for about six more months.

 

According to the Firefox release calendar, the version of Firefox that supports Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 will continue to receive updates until April 1, 2025. Mozilla will make more official statements about the browser’s support for older platforms later.

[Mr. Fox]

32 minutes ago, Papusan said:

 

This is awesome as well. 

Mozilla extends support for Firefox on older Windows versions

You can continue to use the Firefox browser on older Windows computer for about six more months.

 

According to the Firefox release calendar, the version of Firefox that supports Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 will continue to receive updates until April 1, 2025. Mozilla will make more official statements about the browser’s support for older platforms later.

I use that and the old version of Chrome that still works for Windows 7, but the Chrome nagging really pisses me off. They really need to mind their own business. As long as it works I simply do not care if it is updated.

[Sandy Bridge]

On 9/9/2024 at 6:22 PM, Papusan said:

According to the Firefox release calendar, the version of Firefox that supports Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 will continue to receive updates until April 1, 2025. Mozilla will make more official statements about the browser’s support for older platforms later.

That's great news, but that link has a tracker embedded in it.  uBlock Origin warned me.  Some shady-sounding "skim resources" site.  Dunno if its origin is wherever you copied the link from or if the forum added it on or what, but that's part of the reason I'm using uBlock Origin!

 

I believe the intended link is https://whattrainisitnow.com/calendar/, and that Firefox version is 115.x.

[Papusan]

14 hours ago, Sandy Bridge said:

That's great news, but that link has a tracker embedded in it.  uBlock Origin warned me.  Some shady-sounding "skim resources" site.  Dunno if its origin is wherever you copied the link from or if the forum added it on or what, but that's part of the reason I'm using uBlock Origin!

 

I believe the intended link is https://whattrainisitnow.com/calendar/, and that Firefox version is 115.x.

 

Yup. Typical Pcworld links. You need searc around their links. So shady business. 

[Papusan]

 

How Google Chrome is declaring war against ad blockers

Ghostery's CEO and Director of Engineering break down the new Manifest V3 changes, and why they're bad news for anyone who wants to block ads.

 

 

Yup, Google and Alphabet Inc as a company is greedy. Of course they want a war against ad blockers. 

 

Heavy price increases await Youtube Premium

• Internet
• yesterday 13:00

Youtube Premium just got more expensive – the family subscription gets a price increase of over 55 percent.

[saturnotaku]

On 9/22/2024 at 3:18 AM, Papusan said:

Heavy price increases await Youtube Premium

• Internet
• yesterday 13:00

Youtube Premium just got more expensive – the family subscription gets a price increase of over 55 percent.

 

With discounts from Stack Social, you can buy several lifetime licenses for AdGuard for less than what one month of YT Premium costs. I know a lot of folks don't like running extra software on their machines, but it's the most effective way to skirt the Google panopticon.

[Papusan]

On 9/23/2024 at 5:14 PM, saturnotaku said:

 

With discounts from Stack Social, you can buy several lifetime licenses for AdGuard for less than what one month of YT Premium costs. I know a lot of folks don't like running extra software on their machines, but it's the most effective way to skirt the Google panopticon.

 

We'll see how it works when Google continue thighten all the loopholes. They aren't finished screw you.

 

YouTube embeds ads into videos to beat ad blockers

Embedding YouTube ads directly into video streams makes them indistinguishable from content, neutralizing ad blockers.

Chronicle: Advertising will kill YouTube as a source of knowledge

 

Mozilla accused of unauthorized user tracking in Firefox

• Software
• today 17:00

Privacy organization Nyob slams Mozilla for new feature that tracks users without consent.

 

The feature is enabled by default in Firefox version 128, but is easy to turn off. To do this, you need to go to settings, select Privacy & Security and then Website Advertising Preferences . There is a box labeled Allow websites to perform privacy-preserving ad measurement that you can click out of. Whether the opt-in will be activated by default in the future remains to be seen.

[6730b]

Been using duckduck on mobile for a good while, very happy, light, fast and no apparent annoyances.

Just trying to install it on laptop, but appinstaller does not launch (windows can't open this type of file, ltsc thing?). Must be some solution.

ok, quick search, seems some ms store stuff has to be running, nothing of that on my Dell, so must investigate.

Anyway, does Firefox got a real competitor ? Anyone using duck, impressions ?

https://duckduckgo.com
 

[Papusan]

Google going down the drain. And soon you'll see adblockers going away. Aka Google Chrome will be worse than ever. Soon time to go on and find something else. F... You Google.

 

 

[Papusan]

 

On 10/17/2024 at 4:06 AM, Papusan said:

Google going down the drain

As Google Chrome disables uBlock Origin, Brave assures it won't, flaunts its default adblock

neowin.com · 5 hours ago

Brave has reminded users about how much better it is than Google Chrome as the latter begins disabling MV2 extensions like uBlock Origin....