• grus@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Another aspect that people ought to consider: monopoly is actually bad. Shocker, I know.
    But if you have a corporate browser engine that pretty much controls the entire browser market, then whatever standard that browser implements it will automatically become the default. That’s bad, Google is evil.

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      1 year ago

      I’ve used Firefox for a over a decade, and switched from Google to duckduckgo around the same time.

      So yeah, fuck Google. Never missed them.

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    1 year ago

    My one frustration with Vivaldi is that it’s based on Chromium. Yes, it also has an adblocker, but I feel uBlock Origin is more effective! If there’s anything like Vivaldi, but with the Gecko engine, I would like to try it

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      they will implement manifest v3 differently than chromium based browsers, it will not effect the functionality of adblockers

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        I don’t understand why it’s so popular, I tried it out but it’s just chromium with an adblocker and the crypto thing added (Which is a pain to disable it completely). It’s not bad, but it is not as good as people says

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          Charitable answer: because people are too lazy and/or incompetent to install browser addons, which is really very easy to do

          Suspicious answer: astroturfing