This is your hourly reminder that Brave is still Chromium and still contributes to Google's influence over internet standards.

I hate to be a pessimist but if people hate Musk as much as they seem to, but can't leave twitter,

or post "Fuck Spez" thousands of times, but won't leave reddit,

I'm cautious about how much of an exodous I expect to see from chrome.

I think its time we face the fact that most people will trade almost anything for convenience.

I just switched yesterday after learning more about why I should here in Lemmy.

The last time I tried FF (many years ago) it was incredibly slow, so I went with chrome. But the FF of today is actually noticably quicker.

Also, FF offered to import all of my bookmarks, autofills, passwords, history, and even my extensions (if a FF version exists of course, almost all of which did) and did so seamlessly. It was the easiest software switch ever.

I can't believe people still use Chrome, Firefox is better by a mile.

Firefox Mobile is great, Being able to add extensions is just wonderful.

You wish that was happening.

I'm preparing to be completely unsurprised that Firefox's market share will still be at 3% next month and the month after that.

If I had to choose between a tracked, ad-filled experience and a slower, protected experience, I would go back to 1990s style Internet in a second.

What's the advantage for google of doing this move? People "savy" enough to install an adblock (or even know that it exists) is most likely to switch to a competitor that allows for adblocking

A few years back when Firefox went through the whole "Quantum" update, I jumped and never looked back. It's just better in every way, in my opinion.

As a user of Linux and primarily FOSS software for 2 years, each time I recommended something FOSS, others had bad luck.

• I tried switching someone to Linux but I couldn't achive %100 funnctionality on a Windows only app I set up via Wine. (it is an obscure program, not sth like Adobe or MS Office)
• I recommended Kdenlive to a Mac user friend, he couldn't export a video he spent 30 hours on it.
• I convinced someone to use Libreoffice but they lost data in only 30 mins because I forgot to tell that if you draw more than a few strokes in LO Draw it enters a save loop. This is fixed now thankfully.
• I recommended VLC for DVD ripping, it entered some sort of loop and failed to export.

Each of the above examples involve completely different people, by the way.

• I set up 2 fresh Windows installs for family but installed Firefox with strict protection and uBlock Origin instead of Chrome and... it worked?! They still use Firefox. Maybe the alpenglow theme is too good, I don't know.

I think firefox should ship with ublock origin installed. (Perhaps also containers).

Hopefully then more people will migrate faster

Never left. Never would leave. Chrome was always a trap.

In the old days I used Firefox exclusively, until my work started only supporting chrome so I kinda went with it and switched. Out of habit I continued until a couple of years ago, that I went full Firefox again and I remembered why I loved it.

I have for a long time been on Firefox. It's stable and works great.

people when they learn about unlock origin works better with firefox

I bet most people saying chrome is faster don't even know about adblockers or are using Google's websites

I started using Firefox as my browser at work because I hate trying to use profiles and I'm a convert! It's really great!

Google: Not this time

unleashes web integrity API

First time? :)

This is downright funny. Best way to lose your market share, simply put. I've used Googles family of products for around 13 years.

First they ruin Photos, then Google Workspace (12€/month drive price to almost 100€), and now the browser.

Soon it's back to gmail and everything else non-google. And I suppose that's a good thing.

Seriously. I'll be a redditor here, but that's my "migrate-to-another service moment". If I'm not able to whitelist the sites that provide a reasonable ad experience and block ads on those that dont, then I'm moving to a different browser and password saving environment.

Google and every other corporation that wants to be your Daddy or your slave master can go fuck off and die. Personally I have been done for a while now, when Google shit all over the world by buying YouTube then making everyone sign in to Google plus to use, it was it for me, I have never actually signed in to YouTube since, and have tried to avoid giving Google any traffic to this day.

I think we don't have a choice anymore but to start making a new society built from scratch for the people. We can start by using the vast amount of tools and resources built by corporations to enslave us against the same corporations doing the enslaving.

I don't know if the human population can actually collectively do what's necessary to save themselves or more then likely their children from a life of permanent servitude these corporations want.

But why not give it a try, it's better then realizing you were a feckless idiot that did absolutely nothing while you're waiting for a corporation to cut off your life support because you're no longer profitable.

Politicians will allow corporations to enslave everyone but that magical 1%, they're not vary bright, they don't study history, all they study is fleecing the public, when the shit finally hits the fan the leaders these politicians make will hang them first.

And if some corporation don't like what I'm saying, come at me bitch, I've got curable cancer, I've been told I got ten years left, so have fun then die (I'm on a Tennessee Republican Death Panel right now.) So lets see how much "fun" I can make for corporations in ten years.