• Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Firefox has been my go-to, but I’ve left Chrome installed just to have on hand incase some website fuckiness could be solved with a browser change.

    Naw. It’s not worthy of staying around even for that. Time to completely scrub my devices of google.

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      1 year ago

      Feeling the same, it’s surprising how many companies are just leaning towards screwing users for a few more pennies on the dollar. Eventually, Google with be the next AOL.

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      1 year ago

      I’ve been doing similar; been using Firefox, but Chrome is installed for its browser-wide automatic captioning. Not something I need often, but I rely on it for the occasional remote meeting here and there. I’m sure free automatic captioning applications exist for my operating system, but I’d have to actually test each one to see if they actually work, and it’s just been so convenient keeping Google’s around.

      (Speaking of which, if anybody happens to have recommendations for free automatic captioning software that works on Ubuntu, I seem to be in the market…)

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      1 year ago

      I suggest to use chromium as the backup “in case a webpage doesn’t work on Firefox” browser. All the compatibility but no telemetry.

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        1 year ago

        But why use chromium or any chromium based browser since google disabled ad blocking plug-ins?

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          1 year ago

          I suggest it as the backup browser. Use Firefox and if you need to open something that only works on chrome, I’d rather use chromium, so Google doesn’t rape your computer when trying to use the internet.

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          1 year ago

          Eh, did they? I’m sure I still have Ublock Origin on the work browser, which is Chrome.

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      1 year ago

      Nah, I use Edge for that. Chrome is only for work for me, but I think I’m going to migrate to another Chromium-based browser for that.