Technology

laughs in Firefox/Librewolf

Pretty fucked up considering how much malware and scammy bullshit come though ads.

Oh look all the "chrome but in a different outfit" browsers are doing the same terrible shit? What a shocker, no one could have predicted that the many many things all on the same base where actuality just fake competition.

The more you tighten your grip, Google, the more ad revenue will slip through your fingers.

Remember that article awhile back about the FBI recommending you use an adblocker?

That means even the FBI recommends you don't use Google and Microsoft browsers anymore

The browser wars have been kind of strange from the perspective of someone who's been using Firefox for well over a decade. It's a bit like hearing about the Civil War while living in Oregon.

Government becomes more fascist, tech companies become more fascist.

People don’t like surveillance advertising, and most reject it when given the choice. Unpopular policies are squashed when the people are represented, and the Republican policies and interests of forced and extreme deregulation are being represented here, not the people’s.

That, and I believe advertising is inherently fascistic in the way that it distorts realty, and intrusively attempts to modify thinking with punitive, insulting, and psychologically coercive methods - it is corporate propaganda, and when it is combined with surveillance and purchased by the State, it becomes fascism.

I can’t wait for them to try and make ad-blocking illegal. We’re seeing a similar trend with the age verification firm Yoti “reporting” GrapheneOS users to “the authorities”, whatever the hell that Gestapo bullshit scare-tactic means. If FOSS software and ad-blocking are tools of privacy and freedom from thought manipulation, and those concepts are being attacked by a State-backed corporate entity, then the State no longer represents those values. Chrome, like so much other corporate software that has sunk to surveillance advertising with a healthy side of selling data to the government, is now just another fascist tool to punish democratic resistance.

Freedom from advertising is a human right.

Cue the Brave shills “recommending” to switch to Brave in 5..4..3..

Firefox and its derivatives (and Safari - sorry Apple users) are the only browsers not using Google's Blink web engine these days - at least until Ladybird is released.

Despite the Mozilla Foundation's many stupid decisions, Firefox (and Safari) is starting to look like the only thing stopping Google from completely controlling the internet.

Librewolf gang rise up

When will marketing people figure out our generation views ads as hostile, non-consensual, and unwanted? They are a negative way to introduce us to your product/service. I actively avoid things with obnoxious ads. Native, old spice, liberty mutual, all of those brands the first thing that comes to mind is the negative experience of an invasive advertisement I never fucking asked for.

Great.. I work in IT so this means MORE "virus" calls because you 100000000% need an adblocker on the web to stop those fake "your computer is being hacked" malicious advertisements from websites.

Just use Firefox (or Zen Browser, which is a nice fork of Firefox)

Who here actually uses these shitass browsers?

The enshittification is going on overdrive I see...

Good thing I don't use any of those shitty browsers.

People will *anything *except use FireFox

Man up and take your spyware like an obedient peasant

Laughs in Firefox based browsers

And people still use these trash dumpster of a browser?

Man, I panicked at first because I have to use Edge at work. But this article clickbaited me, as uBlock origin lite is good enough for most people.

Still, screw Chrome, Edge, and Opera for being such dicks. It's always those three being the bottom tier browsers...

Ublock was already somewhat neutered on Chrome, and people didn’t seem to notice. They keep using it.

I’m just so cynical these days. It’s not like the Windows XP era, where people eventually get fed up with enshittification, and move.

Google won. Facebook won.

They have absolute control, basically.