I am from Germany and it is just sad how many people use these apps from shit companies without thinking, when suitable alternatives exist everywhere. Just use Firefox, it will work for 99,9% without any flaw. I would love to ditch WhatsApp, but could only convinge a few people to change to Signal. It is as easy as downloading a new app to prevent supporting Meta, but that's too much effort for many :-(
this post was submitted on 11 Mar 2025
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it will work for 99,9% without any flaw
Unfortunately not anymore.
And it doesn't help, that Mozilla is also slowly turning towards enshittification... (since they fired all servo devs...)
Actually as much as I’d love to use Firefox all the time, there are many times it won’t work properly at all. This isn’t entirely Mozilla’s fault, but it is the case.
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if ads were normal and unobtrusive. We wouldn't need ad blockers. Instead we get an almost unusable internet where ads take up more and more real estate. I had been running an ad blocker for so many years that when a friend (who doesn't use an ad blocker) showed me a website, the unfiltered experience was horrifying.
I love this movie but honestly it's getting to the point where I can't even watch it without getting upset.
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uBO is not just an ad blocker, its almost a firewall against malware and a tracking filter
Im old enough to remember the internet before ads, and with ads became a thing and you had to make sure to keep your speakers low/off all the time less some screaming loud ad popped up somewhere to burst your eardrums at 2am.
There were so many obnoxious, visual cancer ads.
Then they became actual digital cancer by being injection points for viruses and malware, and thus adblockers became a necessity.
And they remain a necessity to this day, for the same reason as they were 20+ years ago.
and yet the ad servers want to blame the end user for adblocking.
not their absolute refusal to moderate or police any of the content they deliver.
and yet the ad servers want to blame the end user for adblocking. not their absolute refusal to moderate or police any of the content they deliver.
This is the American way. You try to shit blame elsewhere so noone puts the onus on you to improve so you can keep a larger portion of the profit. "Fuck you I got mine" should be printed on our money lol
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This is probably the single thing that got me to switch to Firefox. Privacy whatever, I don’t care about my data or the morality of my tech company or whatever, but mess with my adblocker and goodbye.
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I switched to Firefox many years ago, after their announcement I switched to Waterfox and I'm very happy with it.
I've been on Firefox since 2004, trying Waterfox right now and it seems very nice. I was surprised to see that it supports Firefox Sync, took me less than ten minutes to make it comfy. Now I'm wondering about that; perhaps I should disable Firefox Sync?
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Glad I don't use chrome anymore. Though unfortunately everyone else I know still does.
Use firefox
And if you don't like Firefox, use one of the Firefox forks. Some of them are very Chrome-like.
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Google is not an IT company. It’s an advertising company. Surprised Pikachu, it blocks ad blockers.
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It's really annoying to me that Firefox doesn't seem to work well on my chromebook, so I'm stuck with Chrome until I need a new computer...
I swapped to Chrome years ago because YouTube stopped working right on Firefox.
I've started the process of swapping back to Firefox after 10 years with Chrome over this.
never had a problem with firefox and youtube
I know what he's talking about- there was some javascript spec or something that google proposed, and nobody else bought in, so it never actually became part of javascript's standard.
But google implemented it into chrome's javascript engine anyway, and then used it for youtube. There was some fallback code if the new functions weren't available, but, because of a 'mistake' they didn't work and basically made playback ass for a while until the open source community basically debugged and fixed the issue FOR google, and then spent a few weeks cramming it down google's throat that it needed fixed.
google does this kinda shit on purpose to reinforce their market position
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If they break youtube in alternative browsers or force ads I'll finally be able to ditch youtube for good.
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I take this as a sign that it genuinely still works to block ads and hasn’t sold out and become malware like those others that used to be popular.
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Boycott these bastids
the what store now
And that is why I went to Firefox once Google announced this bullshit.
Swapping is pretty painless. It even brings over all your passwords and stuff these days. Best get to swapping before Google disable that as well. They'd just love to keep you hostage.
Use a third party password manager, don’t rely on browser default ones
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Chrome? I've heard of that once.
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