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Firefox is calling all of you.

We just added a “copy link without trackers” context menu option too ;)

Ad Blockers will limit Chrome usage starting June 2024.

Users will limit Google Chrome starting June 2024.

I've been limiting Google Chrome for about 5 years now.

I’d be very curious how they are going to try and fuck over Firefox, or similar browsers.

It’s not “just business “, it’s personal. It’s all personal, Mike. You know who I learned that from? Your Father, the Godfather.

Oh ffs. FINE! I will switch away from Chrome!

what a bunch of cunts

Congratulations, you are being tailored a "personal experience"! Please do not resist.

Not surprising since Google is an ad company. I

Meanwhile I have been using Firefox on my various computers for a few years now.

Oh no! There are literally zero other options but to use Chrome!

I limited google chrome a long time ago when i switched back to firefox for good

I wonder if there ever will be a point where the mayor populous actually goes "screw this" and starts finding out how to change their browser via "how to change internet" or "how to change google"

will there ever be a point where this even happens i wonder, like at all

Firefox's decision to move to WebExtensions is starting to look even more questionable, IMO.

On mobile I'm using DDG as primary browser. Firefox as secondary.

On my personal machine it's Firefox and Chromium.

For my job I use Thorium as main (switched coming from Brave), Chrome, Firefox and Edge.

Could do without Chrome any day.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

A year later, Google is restarting the phase-out schedule, and while it has changed some things, Chrome will eventually be home to inferior filtering extensions.

Google's blog post says the plan to kill Manifest V2, the current format for Chrome extensions, is back on starting June 2024.

The company says: "We expect it will take at least a month to observe and stabilize the changes in pre-stable before expanding the rollout to stable channel Chrome, where it will also gradually roll out over time.

On the high end now for me, Slack is drinking 500MB, while a single Google Chat tab, created by this company that is so concerned about performance, is at 1.5GB of memory usage.

Google is adding a completely arbitrary limit on how many "rules" content filtering add-ons can include, which are needed to keep up with the nearly infinite ad-serving sites that are out there (by the way, Ars Technica subscriptions give you an ad-free reading experience and make a great holiday gift!).

Mozilla's blog post on the subject promises "Firefox’s implementation of Manifest V3 ensures users can access the most effective privacy tools available like uBlock Origin and other content-blocking and privacy-preserving extensions."

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I'm only using Chrome for work because the profile switching & syncing is so much smoother and our company is split into two primary brands - my brain handles it better with an individual browser profile for each.

We're consolidating everything into one next year, meaning I can ditch the second browser!

I've tried setting up a second profile but it was just too much effort to get it working and bring everything across from both, then do the same on my laptop for travel, so I'll just wait for now.

I know Firefox is the popular option here, but do we have any serious non-google managed Chromium based browser options out there that don't have some weird gimmick?

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