• Firefox offers better privacy and security than Chrome, with upcoming support for 200 new add-ons. • While Chrome dominates, Firefox gains ground with user-friendly browsing experience and open-source model. • Mozilla’s focus on user privacy and transparency challenges Google’s ad-centric approach, making Firefox a viable alternative.

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    1 year ago

    Just because Google broke the most trafficked site on the internet for Firefox doesn’t mean its a bad browser. Hell that’s a ringing endorsement.

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      1 year ago

      Personally I’d rather stop using any Google services, than handing them a Chrome monopoly. Google is already way to dominant IMO.

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          1 year ago

          I absolutely try to limit it. I use Qwant for search. I don’t use gmail except to register Android. In android I don’t use google services like calendar. I only use Google play for 1 app that is only available through Google play.
          My biggest dependency is probably YouTube, which I must admit I use a lot.

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      1 year ago

      I didn’t notice they broke it. The website works on my Firefox as usual. Maybe you lack some plugins? (like ublock origin, sponsor block, age restriction bypass…)

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      1 year ago

      I still don’t see that they broke FF specifically, they’re fighting back against adblockers, including the ones in browsers like brave.

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          1 year ago
          1. Hasn’t been happening on my Firefox
          2. There have been reports on other browsers as well, so this isn’t a firefox specific issue (p sure I’ve seen some people that use chrome claim they had this issue)
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              1 year ago

              Horseshit. When Firefox’s built in security and privacy protections are detected by Google as “ad blockers” that’s just a thin excuse for delivering a worse experience to people not using their in-house spyware browser.

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          1 year ago

          From what I’ve gathered from other threads, it’s meant to target ad blockers, not Firefox users. It appears though that Firefox users ended up in the crossfire, while uBO can be rigged to block the sleep() function in that case, nullifying the wait.

    • vimdiesel@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      which site is that? Google search page? it works fine for me in every browser I’ve ever tried it on.