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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
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Just quit Chrome…
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Just want to quote reddit users
“THIS”
take my upvote!!!
Include me in the screenshot
you, sir, have won the internet 😂
It’s all we can use at work besides Edge which is just a reskinned Chrome.
On my personal devices it’s 100% Firefox as they have great features like sharing pages between devices and extensions on the mobile browser.
Their best feature IMO has always been “not Microsoft” but now I’ll add “not Google” to that.
You can’t use another Chromium based browser? Brave and Vivaldi will maintain support for Manifest v.2
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They might maintain it for a while, but their whole business model is built on the idea that they don’t have to develop a browser themselves. The longer they maintain v2, the more they have to patch the main chromium release. Eventually it will be enough development time that they’ll give it up. It’s a company and they’ll only do something as long as it’s profitable.
I disagree, their entire business model is built on the idea that they are different from Chrome. Native Adblocker is a feature they advertise. People use their browsers because of this difference and will stop if this difference no longer exists.
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Native adblocking is completely different from manifest v2. I agree that they will continue with their adblocking, however my point still stands.
No everything is managed by IT due to IP concerns. We don’t even have privileges to install programs on the computers.
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Do you have WSL installed? If so, you can install Firefox in it and launch with a GUI, but there’s a massive performance penalty
I don’t think so. I’m assuming this would be more common in a programming type industry. We’re more of a R&D type manufacturing facility.
What about un-Googled Chromium?
It’s still 100% dependent on Google doing development work.
Most IT places don’t let end users install software.
OK, so we just need to make a Firefox that runs inside Chrome :)
Petition the IT boffins about the loss of security when uBlock gets removed from chrome.
This is a large corporation and they laid off all the IT staff a few years ago in favor of outsourcing it to some far-off company.