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The browser wars have been kind of strange from the perspective of someone who's been using Firefox for well over a decade. It's a bit like hearing about the Civil War while living in Oregon.
Where is ladybird browser? They should just release it
Oh look all the "chrome but in a different outfit" browsers are doing the same terrible shit? What a shocker, no one could have predicted that the many many things all on the same base where actuality just fake competition.
Yeah its a real surprise. :)
Firefox has webserial support now. I no longer need anything chromium. Let them rot.
What is it used for?
Communicating with external devices via USB or the old D-Sub connectors.
Printers, microcontrollers, instruments, etc... Directly instead of through the OS.
Notably, ESPHome Programmer uses it for flashing ESP32s wired. Other companies like Solo Motor Controllers use it for delivering a user GUI to customers that is always updated but that can switch between versions instantly for production without having to having to deal with window's broken method of having to manually search and download .exes for every program.
never heard of it till now. neat!
Even grapheneOS use it for adb into your phone to flash the images.
webserial
they use WebUSB in GrapheneOS
It does? Guess I can finally yeet Chromium from my machine then.
They are all chrome with google scratched out and their name written in sharpie in its place.
Of course they are all doing it, cause they are all the same thing.
When will marketing people figure out our generation views ads as hostile, non-consensual, and unwanted? They are a negative way to introduce us to your product/service. I actively avoid things with obnoxious ads. Native, old spice, liberty mutual, all of those brands the first thing that comes to mind is the negative experience of an invasive advertisement I never fucking asked for.
Except we are not customers, and it's the customers that are important. I's like cows asking between themselves when will the butcher realize that they do not like being killed for meat.
Butcher knows, but butcher doesn't sell comfort to cows, he sells meat to customers.
When will marketing people figure out our generation views ads as hostile, non-consensual, and unwanted?
Who knows. I was at the beach this past weekend and there were two different planes flying ad banners in front of me.
What the fuck. That's two different local businesses that I have noted I will actively avoid.
Can't even unplug and face a clear sky without getting ads shoved in your fucking face.
It doesn't matter how we view them as long as they work.
Yet another reason to switch to brave..oh wait...brave is built on chromium so...will adblocker of brave also cease to exist? Will it get blocked too? Vivaldi ad blockers may stop too as afaik its based on opera engine
Yet another reason to switch to brave
There is no good reasons to use brave. It's based on chromium, propped up by suspicious individuals, uses predatory marketing tactics and have an history of not caring very much for privacy in favor of hijacking and inserting referrals. And that's only the most prominent issues. Their last stunt of willingly adding annoying features and offering people to pay to remove them should tell you all you need to know.
Without those, what can you recommend to someone who is not tech-savvy but willing to learn?
Firefox or a fork of it. You can just install uBlock Origin from the Firefox addons.
Though YouTube likes to shadowban comments if you have the Quick Fixes list on, so if YouTube adblocking works without it, then turn it off.
Bruh when I first got my computer the first thing I did after getting a browser was install AdBlock except it was a virus site posing as adblock. I feel so dumb right now. I think I need to just pay someone to sit with me for an hour and teach me computer basics. It feels like I missed a step and everyone knows what's going on but me
Just use the Firefox extensions store and search for "ublock origin". It's like really hard to mess up.
If Chromium becomes incompatible with privacy, the only real and broadly accepted alternative is FireFox. Which implementation, and as always in these kinds of discussions, that depends on your threat model: On desktop, I am very happy with LibreWolf. Mullvad Browser is also great, especially with Mullvad VPN, though it breaks pages a little more often than LibreWolf. On Android, I am quite happy with IronFox.
Firefox. They basically were the ones who kicked off good browsers originally
Waterfox. It's Firefox sans some of the baggage that comes with Mozilla.
people still use chrome?, with all thier bs with adblocking and incognito like almost 7 years ago.
Still? It has like 95% of market share.
"Only" 70%, though of course the point stands.
I only used Electron or CEF apps usually.
High time to leave that ship if you have not done that already.
