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I really, really don’t understand why people use Chrome, or have been using it in the past
Because Firefox crashes my OS, for some odd reason.
Even firefox developer edition?
I used it for years and just recently switched to Firefox. I was just comfortable using it, and knew how to use the dev tools. I had my extensions set up how I liked. I’m still missing a few things on Firefox but fuck chrome.
What things are you missing?
I keep people saying they’re missing things from chrome. I honestly don’t get it, if anything I’ve had more usable features since switching back to FF
If you find anything similar to the Toby extension please let me know. I haven’t been able to find anything close on Firefox.
I expect you have tried to search for it in Firefox, but have you tried sideloading it somehow?
As far as I know Firefox supports a superset of the APIs that Chrome support, so it should be a possible?
While there might not be an addon that perfectly emulates every feature of Toby on Firefox, I am fully confident you can achieve all of its features with settings, config/userchrome edits, or some of the addons that are available. Personally I use Tab Session Manager and Tab Center Reborn (heavily edited though), so you might look into those and see if they have features you like.
I had an extension called Toby that opened a new tab and had an awesome page to organize bookmarks and open tabs. I can’t remember what I’m using on Firefox right now as I’m not at the computer, but it’s probably the most popular bookmark organizer. IMO Toby is just way ahead of anything I’ve found on Firefox.
Doesn’t FF have a builtin tool for that?
I’ll have to look into it, but that would be awesome!
Because it’s the most popular browser
I’ll torrent YT videos before I watch ads.
Pi-hole
worth running even if it didn’t block a single incoming ad. the amount of shit that phones home is truly absurd.
Doesn’t really work for youtube, as some of the ads are served from the same server as the content.
The pi hole doesn’t by itself, but adding in ublock origin is typically enough to get the job done. I basically never see you too bad outside of the sponsored sections and I guess I could use sponsor block for that
And uBlock is about to become useless for Youtube as it won’t be WEI Compliant.
Which is another reason why we don’t use Chrome and why we wholeheartedly support other video hosting initiatives : )
“Youtube requires a browser that supports Web Environment Integrity in order to provide you with the best quality in streaming content. Please upgrade to a browser supprting Web Environment Integrity. Chrome <link to chrome> and Edge <link to edge> are our recommended browsers”
Or words to that effect. And it’ll likely gradually become the same for most advert funded sites.
EDIT: Actually I don’t think this will become a thing until it is hitting their bottom line. That is if enough people switch away from chromium based browsers. Just like it did for ad blockers.
These scumbag companies filled to the brim with more business degrees than ideas can go ahead and keep trying this shit, but I’m never playing ball. In fact, they’ve got me back into pirating when I had stopped for about a decade or more.
Same, and I’m openly encouraging those I know to do the same or leech from me.
uBlock Origin does away with them. PiHole is more and more outclassed by the architecture hosts like Youtube deploy anyway.
I’d rather drink a verification can and do a little dance.
Seriously just use Firefox for your browser and Revanced on mobile for youtube
I WON’T use FF and I DON’T use youtube. Like, at all.
Legit curious why you won’t use Firefox. As a longtime FF user I’m well aware that Mozilla has made plenty of stupid decisions, but how does that make Google a better choice?
To me, Mozilla and Google are the same shit. I hate them both. Mozilla is just smaller, but much more hypocritical. They haven’t shipped anything of value since years. So, I’ll put my small grain of sand to make them disappear not only refusing to use FF (after having been using a d advocating for it from 2002 to 2021) but also actively discouraging people from using it. Every FF user lost is a nail in the coffin of Mozilla and its stupid community and that’s a good thing.
I’m not interested in engaging in a discussion on my personal choices, so I won’t reply further. Bye.
My future browser will be a terminal prompt
You can use Lynx. Here is the google homepage:
Nice. but Unfortunately WEI will detect the header of the request and block site access even with a terminal browser. The end is near.
Spoof the header?
WEI will request a authentication token that will be provided by a third part software like Play Store in Android to certificate that your request is made by you a human and not by a bot so technically spoof the header agent will not be effective. Dark times awaits us my friend. Other problem is how deep embedded in the system this trust agent that provides these tokens will be. It may be embedded in kernel like Easy Anti Cheat for example and this will make the things even worse because they can classify many devices like " not approved " just by not meet software or hardware requirements
Compile a kernel?
It’s no so simple, man. The vast majority of users don’t have the skills to do this and I think even if you compile the kernel of your personalized system it will not circumvent WEI and it will brake some functionality somehow
Develop an API which spoofs authorization authentication tokens? Like man in the middle?
Get piped
Both YouTube and Chrome are bloatwares in my Samsung smartphone. I happily use NewPipe!
I’m just gonna be outside off this.
you will buy the useless crap. You will work extra hours to afford it.
I’ve noticed that the average listed salaries on Indeed have gone down about 30% in the last 2 years, which is great because prices of damn near everything have gone up at least as much.
I hate google but can you stop posting the same shitty memes in different formats
Nice try google employee!
my man literally the first four posts I see are just complaining about google adblock, and I keep seeing it over time yes we get it you don’t like ads and google is adding adblock. move to firefox/ublock (or no ublock if you want to support the content creators) and let it go imo, there aren’t even that many ads on youtube, I barely notice them normally cuz theres only one every 3 videos or so and it’s like 5 seconds long for a 20 min video (if there are more ads inside a video I’m pretty sure that usually means the creator put them there, not youtube)
Mainstream media promotes Chrome everywhere possible. The last bastion of promoting Firefox is FOSS community platforms. The fuck do you expect, us to stay quiet and “let it go”?
