Gravitytr1
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If this is true, some of these are very concerning. What alternatives do we have now that Google cornered the market with chromium and caused Firefox to sell out
The end of uBlock Origin in Chrome is now weeks away, not months
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TechSavy101
Posts: 88 +110
Swapped chrome for Helium
Theinsanegamer
Posts: 8,735 +17,801
Daaanang.......so at worst they're on par with firefox then.
Also fix your formatting, it looks like you're in a love hate relationship with your enter key.
Theinsanegamer
Posts: 8,735 +17,801
Helium is still built on Chromium.....
Google didn't "cause" firefox to do anything. Firefox, as an organization, has been compromised for a long time. Remember that the only reason brave exists is because firefox decided to get political and drive away some of their programmers and fire their CEO.
They could have stood on their ideological tenants of supporting the open web, but instead chose to take googles blood money so they could continue to dump money into political projects and activist activities, all while their browser fell further behind chrome.
With the disclaimer that I haven't used Brave on the desktop, the problem is Brave's image of being the hero in a don't-be-evil world.
Neatfeatguy
Posts: 2,275 +4,576
I disabled Chrome from updating when they announced the V3 model that'll prevent adblockers from working. By then I wasn't really using Chrome much and had mostly been using Firefox.
Wife "claims" she needs chrome to do her work from home, but that's because she's got a couple of passwords linked to a couple programs through Chrome and she's too lazy to get the passwords again to use Firefox to connect to the sites she goes through.
I remember when Chrome was the browser to use, was faster than most others, wasn't intrusive and bloated. I wonder if this move will trigger any kind of a fallout with more people?
Wife "claims" she needs chrome to do her work from home, but that's because she's got a couple of passwords linked to a couple programs through Chrome and she's too lazy to get the passwords again to use Firefox to connect to the sites she goes through.
I remember when Chrome was the browser to use, was faster than most others, wasn't intrusive and bloated. I wonder if this move will trigger any kind of a fallout with more people?
disinfect8280
Posts: 105 +49
GOOD. Ad networks are a privacy nightmare and the internet version of literal AIDS. Brave's banner ads have always been optin and they share revenue with the end user. It is in fact a far better model. The end user can chose to then share that with the creator.
TechSavy101
Posts: 88 +110
It is based on chromium but it allows you to install adguard, ublock and/or AdNauseam which blocks adds and costs advertising companies $. checkout video below:
TechMonger
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I never see ANY Techspot articles in my Facebook feed. Is that a thing?
Tried moving away from chrome for a few months but it didn't work. So I got an AdGuard subscription and all browsers has no ads, including mobile chrome on Android and all Android Apps
It's a method to support the project. If they're haters, they're gonna be salty anyways.
I shifted to Brave 
on both my phone and PC, sync was great. But as Chromium is hitting the bucket, I may have to shift to Firefox. It's good too. But, has "slightly" less (emphasis on slightly) user-friendly UI. That ain't no big deal. But the Android-Apple-Mac-Windows-Linux wide same user experience and sync features will be missed. A sad day for Apple users too (not me tho).
And no matter which side you were, remember less competition in the ad-blocking, privacy browser market, no matter how you saw the other competitors, is bad.
Not to mention, Firefox also survives because of Google money (yes, the Google paying for being the default search engine thing)
on both my phone and PC, sync was great. But as Chromium is hitting the bucket, I may have to shift to Firefox. It's good too. But, has "slightly" less (emphasis on slightly) user-friendly UI. That ain't no big deal. But the Android-Apple-Mac-Windows-Linux wide same user experience and sync features will be missed. A sad day for Apple users too (not me tho).And no matter which side you were, remember less competition in the ad-blocking, privacy browser market, no matter how you saw the other competitors, is bad.
Not to mention, Firefox also survives because of Google money (yes, the Google paying for being the default search engine thing)
Gravitytr1
Posts: 230 +136
I agree with most what ur saying, but Google is a main factor in the downfall of both Firefoxes. They have public and backdoor dealings with Google.
Alpine7995
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Google insisting this is about security while operating the world’s largest advertising platform is technically possible, but it does require industrial quantities of benefit of the doubt.
Vanderlinde
Posts: 799 +530
Run a local Pi-hole, to block any request on a DNS level to an adprovider.
Use adguard local on your PC.
Use a VPN that by default blocks ads.
This whole V3 thing is just to merge, purge out the missing revenue of adblockers.
The war is not won; only the battle.
Use adguard local on your PC.
Use a VPN that by default blocks ads.
This whole V3 thing is just to merge, purge out the missing revenue of adblockers.
The war is not won; only the battle.
I switched to Firefox 2 years ago when Google started throttling youttube videos over ad blocking. I remember being hesitant to switch back to FF because back in the day it had terrible memory management and would crash often, but I'm happy to report FF is so much better now and far superior to chrome.
acrossthestars
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If you're still enthusiastically, purposefully using Google Chrome in 2026―despite all of the problems and scandals surrounding it, which includes AI and other unnecessary data-scrapping systems― and not Firefox, Opera, or at least a derivative like Chromium or Brave, then I must conclude that you're
A) a herd animal that goes wherever the wind blows
B) outraged about [current thing] but only insofar as it doesn't personally impact you because
C) you hate mega corporations but you're not willing to actually stand on business and use something else because "Chrome is just too convenient" and learning something else is hard
Chrome isn't losing uBlock Origin just because of "shareholder value". Chrome is losing uBlock origin because the userbase is a bunch of complacent sheep and will just eat whatever slop comes down the pipe. If Chrome lost a substantial amount of market share to other, better browsers, then Google would have to respond by making the browser suck less. It would still suck regardless, because it's been bad for a decade and change doesn't happen overnight, but the suck wouldn't be as bad as it will be soon.
A) a herd animal that goes wherever the wind blows
B) outraged about [current thing] but only insofar as it doesn't personally impact you because
C) you hate mega corporations but you're not willing to actually stand on business and use something else because "Chrome is just too convenient" and learning something else is hard
Chrome isn't losing uBlock Origin just because of "shareholder value". Chrome is losing uBlock origin because the userbase is a bunch of complacent sheep and will just eat whatever slop comes down the pipe. If Chrome lost a substantial amount of market share to other, better browsers, then Google would have to respond by making the browser suck less. It would still suck regardless, because it's been bad for a decade and change doesn't happen overnight, but the suck wouldn't be as bad as it will be soon.
monkeylove
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You can use Adguard paid (get the lifetime promo deal for only a few dollars) which can also be used for various apps and the phone, but it may slow down browsing.
There's also Zen Privacy, but only for desktops.
There's also Zen Privacy, but only for desktops.
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