Edge will probably replace chrome once this happens as I cannot see them doing the same thing.
Edge is Chromium-based and I'm sure that MS will cave to Google's demands if any are made. It's not like either one of them has shown a great track record when it comes to having ethics.
Must reiterate: If you care at all, start using Firefox today to avoid them being completely out of business by 2023 which is a distinct possibility given how many users they're bleeding.
I've used Firefox for over 20 straight years. I've just come to accept what sheep people are when it comes to computers. I'll continue to use Firefox until its dying breath, or my dying breath.
And someone before mentioned Brave and I'm sure people will mention other Chromium based forks that are de-googled. But the issue there is that as long as they're still working off the main Chrome code they become subservient to Chrome: sure they might "fix" a lot of what Chrome gets very, very wrong but at the same time their popularity is contingent upon Chrome's hegemony so they're never really going to challenge Google and if they do well, Google could just stop updating Chromium and leave all competitors in the dark: there's nothing saying that Google Chrome needs to have party with Chromium and Google knows they can keep competitors in check that way.
It was lazy and stupid of them to just produce a re-skinned version of Chromium but that's what people have come to. I was REALLY shocked when Opera did it.
After all the competitors are really just helping Google get established as the only name in town: all web development depends on their decisions and once there's no more competitors (And right now there's only Safari and Firefox which hangs by a thread) then they can easily sabotage everybody else.
People keep contributing to the problem until what you just prophecised comes to pass. Then they moan and whine about it like little children. It won't be the first time this happens, if it does (and I hope to hell that it doesn't). I honestly don't understand the appeal of Chromium-based browsers over Firefox except that it's a bit more streamlined for people who aren't tech-savvy. I'd be willing to bet that over 95% of people who continue to use Firefox are tech geeks and we use it because we like the privacy and the customisations that you can do with it. We also like the fact that neither Google nor Microsoft has ANYTHING to do with it.
I don't use Chrome but I am afraid Firefox is in danger......
Then use Firefox. It's not that hard....
I use Adguard and problem resolved.
I use Firefox and the problem never occurred.
With Firefox and derivatives, you can configure them to not autoplay media.
Another reason we techies still love to use Firefox.
Shameless plug: We try our best not to abuse ads on TechSpot, we don't do stickies and won't overwhelm pages with ads. Those who don't ad block can attest to it.
It's true. I have no ad blocker on Edge at work and I have no complaints. Now, I realise that I'm an Elite User but I'm not inundated before I log in to my account either.
Admittedly
the ad experience is better when logged in. If I am not logged in, I cannot say that I entirely like the ad experience. Then again, most places I have uBlock enabled. I've disabled uBlock on TS.
I never noticed that and I'm an Elite. Maybe I'm blind, I dunno.
Thanks for the tip on pi-hole. I had a quick look on their web site, and for me, ATM, it seems like too much work to replace what I have setup on my network.
Jeez man, talking about the tip, the pi-hole and then ATM? This conversation went straight to the gutter in short order, eh?
