It is sad, but through the events of the last few years (Reddit, Twitter, politics) companies have realized they can do whatever they want. While they will lose a significant portion of users, the mass majority will stay. The ones that leave are the ones they can't abuse and they don't want them anyway. Profit is better taking advantage of the complacent and losing the activists than the other way around.
Anywho, I will move to Firefox just like I moved to lemmy. Although I'm not sure moving to Firefox actually fixes anything other than giving Google less money. Now I just need to figure out how to have a phone without apple or Google getting a peice.
google pixel 5 bought used, unlock the bootloader and flash it with grapheneOS. download Firefox with AdBlock and use fdroid and aurora store (found on fdroid) for apps.
What really has me paranoid is all the ones suddenly deciding to power trip and give out bans over nothing. We need to create a safe place on the web where the corporations can't get to us.
They remove any videos that being critical towards TikTok. Especially, they're trying to flood Indonesian market with cheap Chinese goods via TikTok Shop.
Fairphone 4 from certain vendors comes preloaded with e/OS which is like a deGoogled Android. Might work for people looking to move away from Google. I'm considering it myself for my next phone.
I never liked Chrome. The way it made sponsored search results a really difficult to see shade of yellow made me realise where their priorities were long ago.
As such I have always used Firefox.
Yes, I am feeling pretty smug right about now given how correct I am/was about Google pulling some even more dickish move with Chrome.
I tried to switch to Firefox, but I fill out a lot of forms, and it doesn't have autofill for them. It makes it very slow and frustrating. I've searched for solutions to activate it, add ons for it, etc to no avail. It seems that function may only be available in the US? It's strange to have such a basic feature missing.
I basically switch to firefox until something I need doesn't work, then I go back to chrome until they do something scummy. I'm back on firefox now and the experience is better than previously. I will probably stay and keep Chrome for "just in case" stuff or when I want a browser with no privacy/adblock extensions.
Thank you for all your efforts! Unfortunately, I have already looked at the support posts, they refer to settings that aren't present in my version of Firefox. The add-ons all tell me they aren't suitable for Android. When I go to the section thay say they are for Android, nothing comes up when I search autofill.