1 yr. ago • 95%

Chrome Goodd

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Got a pi hole, what are ads in general?

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- I know that I'm at fault here for using such services, but Pihole can't block the ads that are hosted on the same server as the service, eg. Half the ads on Youtube.
  
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  It's still really good for privacy though, blocking mIcRoSoFt spyware and all kinds of other stuft. And you can create your own blocklists.
  
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- Authoritarian government is a very good adblocker for YouTube, though it has a lot of other problems.
  
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  I don’t get YouTube ads
  
  I don’t get YouTube in my country
  
  Therefore no ads.
  
  Great success
  
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  Lucky you, in my country the only ads that YouTube plays are Authoritarian Government propaganda pieces.
  
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- nextdns is also pretty good.
  
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  This is what I use, made it hard for me to move to Firefox because I already don't get ads in chrome and it is better supported, which is honestly a personal failing on my end
  
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I'm not loyal to a browser, I'm loyal to features. If Chrome supported ad block on mobile and FF stopped, I'd switch overnight

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- Which is exactly the way it should be. And it's a godsend that firefox supports uBlock in mobile.
  
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  Definitely, YT background play and ad block have been a lifesaver on car rides
  
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- From me it would need more. Chrome has more (mostly privacy related) disadvantages compared to Firefox than that
  
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- You don't care about the many other ways that not using and supporting Chromium is better, ie. not having Google's new invasive advertising system?
  
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- I'm currently using Samsung Internet with content blockers. Firefox on my Android phone has micro stutters that are driving me crazy. The only browser that doesn't have that weird Android scrolling micro stutters are Samsung Internet, weirdly. So I've been using it for years even on non Samsung phones.
  
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Fuck Chrome

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I still prefer firefox for other reasons

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- Then their pages are not worth viewing.
  
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  That does not always work like that. Sometimes you are obliged to use a website that is resistant to user privacy
  
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- whaaaaat
  
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- I've never seen that with the Apple website and I use Firefox as my main browser. Was there a specific page that was blocked or something?
  
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I just set up a pi hole, I was late to the party.

So much shit is pushed from our PCs, and phones. 49.85% of requests are blocked by it.

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- It's even more horrifying when you realize that's a lower bound. It doesn't even include dynamically loaded ads from the same domains, and it doesn't include ads that can't be blocked because it would stop services from working.
  
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- Infuriating, isn't it? Half of all requests are completely unnecessary and serve you no purpose
  
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Was using Chrome as my main browser and FF as my second browser last week. Uninstalled Chrome, made Firefox my main browser and Waterfox as my second browser. Forget Chrome and forget Edge!

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- Why would you need a second browser?
  
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  It's helpful when something doesn't work in your browser and want to test in a different one. I use FF as my main browser and Chromium as my backup.
  
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  Because I'm an admin of multiple Azure tenants so I have the main one logged in on Firefox and the other one on Waterfox.
  
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if only ublock could stop these Firefox ads

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Meanwhile Mozilla: fires 200 workers to pay the CEO 2M :)

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- Ah well then I guess Google actually isn't destroying privacy after all
  
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  Exactly the point I was making.
  
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- There's LibreWolf, Waterfox, Basilisk, Pale Moon and Pulse. You don't have to support Mozilla if you don't want to and at the same you don't have to submit to Chrome's supremacy.
  
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  I love librewolf
  
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- Do you have source?
  
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  Happened during COVID haven't kept up with Mozilla news since.
  
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- ?? (translate pls)
  
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  First slide says something along the lines of "boo, i just use adblock" and the second one should make sense
  
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Set up adguard home as your DNS server, no client side adblock needed anymore

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- uBlock Origin can do more than that though, it's definitely nice to have depending on your wants and needs.
  
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why am i edge user now i used both of those before

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- I was on the edge too, but decided to go with brave
  
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  firefox for linux machine edge for windows & custom browser for android phone. brave idk
  
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You do realise ublock origin exists for Chrome as well right?

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- Yeah but google chrome nerfs it severely.
  
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  Not to mention the fact that FF is the only mobile browser to support add-ons
  
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  In what way?
  
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- not for long, and expect even more restrictions to its use after Web Environment Integrity.
  
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  People have been saying that about Chrome for at least a decade and it's never happened. If it does actually happen (it won't) then I'll switch but no reason to switch before then.
  
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Does it load google websites (youtube, gmail, drive, etc.) unnoticeably slower than brave? (More than 1s is noticeable for me) That's the only thing keeping me to switch from brave to firefox

*Edit: Why am I getting downvoted? It's just a question. Realistically, many depend on google services but still want privacy. Can't we ask for it??

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- Hi, for a long time Firefox was seen as slow by windows users when it was in fact Windows Defender slowing it down artificially to "check its activity" - while at the same time on other OSes it was actually faster and more lightweight than Chrome. I think that’s also the reason people downvote you - Firefox isn’t perceived as slow by the wider privacy focused user base (or they don’t care) - even though at some point it might have been on Windows or webpages are still better optimized for Chrome.
  
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  I was asking if it would be fast enough to surpass the speed of chromium optimized websites. But looks like there would be some sacrifices. Thank you anyway! Idk why people assume everyone would know about all the things you told
  
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the eternal cycle:

see "firefox good, chrome bad" posts

start using firefox

firefox: crashes randomly when opening some video in fullscreen

sigh and go back to chrome again
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- Sounds like a graphic driver problem.
  
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- The firefox process on my machine has been running since 07.23, that is, for almost 2 months now. I just asked it and it feels ok
  
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- firefox: crashes randomly when opening some video in fullscreen
  
  If a "random" crash is enough to convince you to abandon Firefox and go back to Chrome that's just on you.
  
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- Maybe file a bug?
  
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- You have to make some concessions in order to keep your privacy as a human right.
  
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