Me: Please don't use Chromium-based browsers, use Firefox instead. Google has way too much control over the web because of Chromium and they'll be sure to leverage that in order to benefit themselves.

Chromium: Hey all, we're getting rid of ad-blockers because it's cutting into our record-breaking revenue! I mean, uh, we're deprecating Manifest V2 for, uh, security. Yeah.

Me: See? Please use Firefox. ​

Mozilla: Hey friends, AI is really cool! *steps on rake* Hey friends, we're making an ads business! *steps on rake* Hey friends, we have a ToS with either the most nefarious or the most incompetent language ever! *steps on rake* Also AI is cool!!!

Me: ... ​ I hate it here.

#Mozilla #Firefox #Google #Chrome #Chromium #FOSS

Mind you, this still isn't a good excuse to use a Chromium-based browser.

And for all you people using Brave out there, well ​ 🖕 Brave is run by this guy who hates queer people and believes conspiracy theories about Covid, so maybe don't use his shitty browser that's been caught injecting affiliate links.

#Brave #BraveBrowser #Mozilla #Firefox #Google #Chrome #Chromium #FOSS

Anyway I'm probably switching back to LibreWolf and turning off some of the privacy protections because they're a bit overbearing. ​

@Rusty ToS only applies to Firefox binaries. Get sources, or get your binaries from Debian who gets sources.

@pavel I'm just using the LibreWolf flatpak currently Not because the ToS particularly bothers me or anything, but because I don't really like playing opt-out whack-a-mole whenever they add something new I don't really like.

@Rusty I switched to LibreWolf as well. Turned off it's autocookie delete setting and the fingerprint setting
everything else is fine.

@StaceyAyodele Yeah, it's just Firefox under the hood with a bunch of different options in the about:config flipped around. I struggled to get DRM'd content working though which is why I booped back over to Firefox, since Asahi Linux did a pretty interesting hack to get Widevine into their Firefox package.

@Rusty
There's always "Lynx"... which admittedly is like viewing the Matrix w/o benefit of the "interpreter". 😉

@MugsysRapSheet Anyone who legitimately uses Lynx must have the wildest neovim config

@Rusty @MugsysRapSheet You can still turn off the ad features in Firefox by being your own "enterprise IT manager" and writing a `policies.json` file in the right place. Easier than messing with settings because it applies to all user accounts and profiles

https://blog.zgp.org/turning-off-browser-ad-features-from-the-command-line/