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(DIR) Post #AdcZQ98wQic1Cm9tqK by dangillmor@mastodon.social
2024-01-08T01:41:15Z
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It is essential to stop using Chrome. Under the pretense of saving users from third-party spyware, Google is creating an ecosystem in which Chrome itself is the spyware.Given Google's overwhelming presence in the browser market, this is unconscionable.We should all despise the ad-tech business, and have no sympathy for the companies getting whacked by Google's actions. But we should not permit one monopolist to replace them all.
(DIR) Post #AdcZQAQLfU89B3JJc8 by Ricardus@mastodon.sdf.org
2024-01-08T01:50:34Z
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@dangillmor Remember the good old days when we hated Internet Explorer and thought we'd never rid the world of that?
(DIR) Post #Adcl1jQZaTZdwvWwIi by SmartmanApps@dotnet.social
2024-01-08T04:00:31Z
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@Ricardus @dangillmor
(DIR) Post #Adclp6z8n119CYFGee by erik@social.stlouist.com
2024-01-08T02:31:41Z
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@dangillmor The problem is, it is the best browser out there at the moment.
(DIR) Post #Adclp88kUmIUmdkSGm by tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
2024-01-08T04:09:34Z
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@erikSettle for less, for reason. I'm serious... I've personally had few problems with sites, more with all the blockers. But there's other browsers. I'm serious. The unquestioned demand for continuous peak experience is a trap. I suggest questioning it when cornered by bad choices. And hope mozilla gets their shit together. @dangillmor
(DIR) Post #AdcywAjsWvY6H6nsWm by SirPaulCouture@noagendasocial.com
2024-01-08T06:36:32Z
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@dangillmor If you are using Chrome the painless shift to Brave and improved experience is worth the 30-45 seconds it takes to switch.
(DIR) Post #Adcz2WIBJBVArIsK3c by gcvsa@mstdn.plus
2024-01-08T02:08:46Z
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@dangillmor The only problem that I have with this is that my transition to Firefox has not gone well. It's very buggy, and doesn't seem to work properly with too many websites.
(DIR) Post #Adcz2XRn0wmWRONVfk by SirPaulCouture@noagendasocial.com
2024-01-08T06:37:41Z
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@gcvsa @dangillmor switch to Brave - Firefox ALSO openly spies on everything you post and read.Brave shares the same rendering engine as Chrome without the bloat and actively protects your privacy.
(DIR) Post #Adcz87lbPGDWX2JDai by AlgoCompSynth@ravenation.club
2024-01-08T02:11:34Z
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@dangillmor While you're at it, ask your members of Congress and Senators why the regulators haven't challenged Google and Facebook and Amazon - they're all monopolies.
(DIR) Post #Adcz88TukVf8kT2bey by SirPaulCouture@noagendasocial.com
2024-01-08T06:38:42Z
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@AlgoCompSynth @dangillmor That fact that you had to name several of these companies that compete with each other, by definition, means they are not monopolies... your mask makes a ton of sense with that logic.
(DIR) Post #AdczCIthxrauDB5qgS by martlund@mastodon.online
2024-01-08T02:21:36Z
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@dangillmor What browser are people using for Windows now?
(DIR) Post #AdczCJxI223NUZmDuC by SirPaulCouture@noagendasocial.com
2024-01-08T06:39:27Z
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@martlund @dangillmor Brave
(DIR) Post #AdczKXIqI0jTCom7fM by artemesia@techhub.social
2024-01-08T02:58:56Z
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@dangillmor firefox with the ublock origin extension, that you can fine-tune and even use to easily prune off stupid annoying parts of websites. But apple changed the API used by ublock origin on IOS, so you can't run ublock origin on IOS. For now.
(DIR) Post #AdczKYEGqUfa4vdzBA by SirPaulCouture@noagendasocial.com
2024-01-08T06:40:57Z
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@artemesia @dangillmor Mozilla Foundation openly states among their goals policing speech on the Internet - switch to Brave + uBlock Origin.
(DIR) Post #AdczYMiKSJKkQ2I4sC by mayor@smugglersbbs.com
2024-01-08T03:02:14Z
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@dangillmor #UseFirefox :firefox:
(DIR) Post #AdczYNjQfho9ZjoTE8 by SirPaulCouture@noagendasocial.com
2024-01-08T06:43:27Z
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@mayor @dangillmor Mozilla Foundation considers saying political things they disagree with makes the Internet unsafe.https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/webvision/Use Brave.
(DIR) Post #AdcziblpKaRC0loKzA by wildebest@mastodon.online
2024-01-08T06:22:29Z
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@dangillmor here's the fun thing. I had a friend who had a problem with his laptop. The laptop ran so slowly and it kept crashing for no reason. Then I uninstalled Google Chrome and voila. The ram usage went down from 99% to 45%. This shows that Chrome was doing something "shady" in the background. And You should know that Chrome collects data about everything you do on chrome even if you use priv window or extensions and you can't disable it from self updating. What an evil spyware it is.
(DIR) Post #AdczicohROKVFyA96O by SirPaulCouture@noagendasocial.com
2024-01-08T06:45:18Z
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@wildebest @dangillmor what plugins and additional spyware did he have installed?Nothing in the engine would cause that alone.
(DIR) Post #AddEoQcPCmxqTSda8O by jikodesu@mastodon.social
2024-01-08T02:17:02Z
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@gcvsa @dangillmor Best browsers for privacyBraveFirefoxDuckDuckGo (mobile only)Mullvad browser (desktop only)Torhttps://www.zdnet.com/article/best-browser-for-privacy/
(DIR) Post #AddEogQERojXUL45Ng by jesuisatire@social.tchncs.de
2024-01-08T03:13:24Z
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@jikodesu brave builds on chromefirefox (mozilla) sold itself already to google and has backdoors itselfdoes TOR build on firefox?sounds like epiphany is the only one left.@gcvsa @dangillmor
(DIR) Post #AddEp23I1nSCZYV4fw by yaygya@c.im
2024-01-08T04:44:32Z
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@jesuisatire Epiphany is WebKit-based. WebKit development is largely directed and funded by Apple these days.
(DIR) Post #AddEpE59Ii4TsnSjEu by alexelcu@social.alexn.org
2024-01-08T09:34:20Z
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@yaygya Apple receives about 20 billion per year from Google, via their search deal. Hence, it is safe to say that Safari's development is entirely funded by Google's ads.This doesn't imply that Safari or WebKit wouldn't survive, should the Google deal end. But until then, Apple, despite their deep and diversified pockets, would be fools to bite the hand that feeds them.For example, given the search deal, do you ever see a Safari that blocks any of Google's search ads? Nope. 😉@jesuisatire
(DIR) Post #AddHchkpy4qo0YgNt2 by crash_course@todon.eu
2024-01-08T10:05:51Z
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@tomjennings @erik @dangillmor This is a perfect example of how the technosphere works: A continuous drive towards, more, better, faster etc. Most of the time without any real reason for wanting it or any necessity for it.In general people use 20% of the possibilities for 80% of their activities.
(DIR) Post #AddZflJ90mGl4XKxMG by janpieter@mastodon.social
2024-01-08T12:12:32Z
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@dangillmor Kagi is making a browser, but it's only for Macs 😐. https://kagi.com/orion/
(DIR) Post #AddZfmnfSmHNhUcqZc by didek@101010.pl
2024-01-08T13:28:09Z
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@janpieter @dangillmor 100% funded by users? They mean donations or is it just a paid product (nothing wrong with that, but the marketing)?Privacy respecting? How? Because they said so?
(DIR) Post #AddZz0khoUAwTUPJRo by JohnLoader6@masto.ai
2024-01-08T08:56:12Z
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@dangillmor I run AVG secure browser - it fits on top of most browsers and adds loads more security. Will that stop Chrome's shenanigins?
(DIR) Post #AddZz1ozq1CZn5QFm4 by didek@101010.pl
2024-01-08T13:31:37Z
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@JohnLoader6 @dangillmor Basically Chrome with additional stuff from AVG added on top.
(DIR) Post #Adda7iRZFnj2IVbeaW by princelysum@aus.social
2024-01-08T07:17:33Z
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@dangillmor How does this compare to Edge?
(DIR) Post #Adda7jLDusFF57e6L2 by didek@101010.pl
2024-01-08T13:33:12Z
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@princelysum @dangillmor Edge is Chrome with changed interface on top. Google still controls the development of core technologies, inner workings and how to web looks like.
(DIR) Post #AdddERfYJpnaA732p6 by janpieter@mastodon.social
2024-01-08T14:07:21Z
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@didek I suggest you read the FAQ.
(DIR) Post #AddjlEUevUHcZzyDgG by jesuisatire@social.tchncs.de
2024-01-08T15:21:08Z
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@alexelcu Apple and Google are companies located in the US, ruled by the US, it's official and unofficial laws, infiltrated by the US and so on and so on and so on ..@yaygya
(DIR) Post #AddrQ9qNokMdi9aq24 by tux0r@layer8.space
2024-01-08T16:47:01Z
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@martlund @dangillmor Vivaldi
(DIR) Post #AdeUfifWDQxBvXd0XA by alice@marrow.haus
2024-01-08T02:33:47Z
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@dangillmor Remember, folks. "In the name of open-source collaboration" Google raised a middle finger to WebKit and forked it to be Blink, the engine powering Chrome, Chromium, and about 90% of the ecosystem including Microsoft Edge.They're rather successfully stealing plays from Microsoft's book, harkening back to the Internet Explorer days. "Embrace, extend, extinguish". [Thanks Brian!]Monopoly.Quite the contrast to Apple's day-0 KHTML/WebKit philosophy. https://marc.info/?l=kfm-devel&m=104197092318639
(DIR) Post #AdeUfmwgJZ3jBvglqC by alice@marrow.haus
2024-01-08T22:16:33Z
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I'll add an important note: KHTML was heavily tied to Qt, especially in memory management. Apple's initial effort was largely to divorce the layout & rendering engine (and JSCore) from Qt.There was actual reason to fork.Chrome's multi-process isolation model was, theoretically, a relatively good reason to require a fork rather than contribute patches, except…WebKit2.From 2010.Ground-up abstracted design.Strict process isolation.
(DIR) Post #AdfS0mES3ZWGM7HEq8 by didek@101010.pl
2024-01-09T11:11:44Z
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@Ricardus @dangillmor At least IE wasn't also made the same company holding most popular Internet services overall.There was many people still learning WWW and a field to gain new lands.IE wasn't the base for so many popular applications like Chrome is for VSCode, Teams, Spotify, etc.Same problem - monopoly, different times.
(DIR) Post #AdfS3sNHfwfSH6t0GO by jdrch@mastodon.social
2024-01-08T02:09:11Z
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@dangillmor They're doing with Chrome what Apple did with iOS
(DIR) Post #AdfS3tZjDADRzziSIa by didek@101010.pl
2024-01-09T11:12:18Z
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@jdrch @dangillmor What Apple did with iOS?
(DIR) Post #AdfnoYi2hpcnvrhHhw by Ricardus@mastodon.sdf.org
2024-01-09T15:16:00Z
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@didek @dangillmor true. Plus they go against their old "don't be evil" motto every day.
(DIR) Post #AdgAfiGO74kru2VrBQ by aral@mastodon.ar.al
2024-01-09T11:03:15Z
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@dangillmor If only folks had warned us about this stuff a decade ago…https://ar.al/notes/spyware-2.0/#google #spyware