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