Anyone have any content blocker for chrome? I want to see adds only
Don’t worry, google will handle it for you
Page one of any Google search result should get you fairly close.
Personally I’d like to only see multiplies, thanks.
Firefox is faster than ever, and I trust Mozilla a fair bit more than Google to not be shady with my data. The switch is painless, and ads these days cover what feels like over half the page… it’s insane.
I run ff on my phone and PC, with all the privacy settings maxed. Ublock also works on Android and makes those trashy BuzzFeed style sites readable.
thank you for posting the image directly on the instance youre using and not on some random website ive never heard about before that still uses http
I used 0x0.st. Mlem doesn’t support uploading documents.
what is 0x0.st, why doesnt it use https and why cant mlem be used to post pngs and/or jpegs?
It’s a FOSS file hosting service, run by @mia@movsw.0x0.st
Also, it does support HTTPS. It’s just that, when you upload a file with cURL, it spits out an HTTP link.
Mlem just doesn’t yet support uploads.
I know that the jump to chrom was aided by a number of factors, with one of the bigger ones being how fluid technology use was at the time. Everything was new and anything could become number 1.
Still it’s so frustrating that when firefox had the memory leak and “took a long time to launch” the web was flooded with complaints and people jumping to chrome and congratulating google on what a modern browser they built.
Meanwhile everytime chrome gets caught with high memory usage, pushing their own web standards, or destroying adblock and a free web as we know it, the internet as a whole shrugs as if there isnt anything that can be done.
Remember Google AMP? And Google was proxying sites that implemented it? That shit would have been so abused if it had reached as critical mass as Chrome
I just did this some weeks ago, and the switch has been seamless. So long Chrome 😊 !
We both know barely a single person this is referring to even knows what a browser is
I’ve tried firefox in the past. Back and forth I go when google does something dumb but I always go back. This time I think I’ll deal with the stuff I don’t like for now, or maybe make extensions to fill the voids that I miss desperately.
Been using it since the start of the year, the transition was pretty simple. what don’t you like?
15 years ago, Firefox would cause my desktop computer to spin up its really loud fan once or twice an hour. It was a room away from my bedroom, but it was enough to wake up my (now) wife, who was angry, but unable to identify the source of the noise. That lasted for a few weeks before I noticed it during the day. When I switched to Chrome, it stopped.
It’s totally unreasonable, but it’s enough to keep me off Firefox. I’m sure both browsers have been rewritten multiple times since then.
Well, it was, until the whole “web integrity thing”.
Yeah. That does sound unreasonable haha.
I used to use Firefox before chrome released. It used to be the best, but chrome took the crown after Firefox became a memory eater.
Now chrome is being all iTunes walled garden, and Firefox also recently overtook it in terms of speed.
I installed it alongside my trusty chrome install, played around with extensions(or add-ons) until the experience mostly matched, and switched over once I was satisfied.
Chrome’s still installed if I need it, but I haven’t needed it!
It’s worth a go at least!
I rely on chromes tab groupings. Nothing in Firefox does as good a job, but I’m getting by just fine for now.
Why so many tabs? I close as I go else it’s a cluttered mess.
Is your solution to Firefox not having proper tab grouping “why do you need tab grouping?” Lol
I don’t have a solution, so I’m having a conversation about it.
Don’t treat me like I own Firefox and it’s my job to convert everyone.
Why not? It seems like that’s exactly what you’re doing lol
I’m just asking questions, as I haven’t personally had many issues. I’ve had some, but not the ones mentioned by the people here. I feel like people would prefer to have a browser with an ad blocker so I’m interested in what hurdles people are finding that may be stopping them.
Not everything is an argument.
I usually have 30+ tabs grouped around in chrome. I got a lot going on and it helps keep my ADHD in check when I’m trying to work on something.
My version is starred emails in Gmail and folders full of bookmarks instead 😅
I hope they integrate a tab grouping functionality for you tab hoarders soon!
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Firefox containers are godly. I’ll never go back to chrome.
Ads are annoying yes, but I can understand why they’re there. And for ones that you just scroll by, it’s nbd, really.
It’s the ones that don’t scroll past and just cover a chunk of screen til you manually close them that should never be allowed in any context, ever, at all. I don’t care if the advertiser is paying me in free hourly blowjobs, forcing me to make an extra click is unforgivable in any circumstance. Especially on mobile pages, where they tend to stack up, or decide that your “close” click is actually a “take me to your offer, please” click, if it even counts at all. Or I guess I mean tap.
Not gonna lie, unlike just of you guys I don’t really care for ad blocking. I pay for YouTube premium and other sites I visit I don’t really get bothered by it.
However I’m more disturbed about the overreach this is and the control we’re giving to Google or whoever. That’s the reason I use Firefox.
Its like a ransom if the stakes were as low as possible. They hold your state of non-annoyance hostage and ask for a negligible amount for it so no one gets emotionally involved in this exchange regardless of whether or not they wanna pay the ransom. Instead of subterfuge or the threat of violence they “get away with it” by nature of being generally inconsequential.
All this to say, seeing as you payed the “ransom”, I would personally describe you as more bothered by ads than anyone else. Not a value judgement, just an observation.
In order of least to most bothered by ads, doesn’t it make sense to assume
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People who watch ads (unbothered)
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People who install adblockers (somewhat bothered)
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People that pay money to remove ads (extremely bothered)
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If you are a Mac user, Orion is also a great choice.
Who the fuck using chrome anyway? It was good while it was lightweight, but it quickly got fat.
Pretty much every Windows and Android user. At my school Chrome is the standard, so I ended up taking in Phyrox on a stick until I could start bringing my own hardware.
I just tried Firefox: Startup took around 40 seconds, UI was not responsive at all, and I couldn’t install locally developed extensions.
40 seconds? I’ve never experienced that with Firefox at all. You’re either being hyperbolic or have an ancient computer. I have a Samsung Windows 10 machine from 2015 that opens Firefox just as quickly as it opens Chrome.
Nope, neither. But since I don’t get any console output I have no way to debug this.
And what about the second time you started it and it didn’t need to build a user profile first?
I thought the same, but no, takes that long, too.
Its less than 1 second on my wife’s 2011 laptop, something is wrong with your system
40 seconds to boot? I’ve never experienced this even on my 20 years old potatoe. I find that very hard to believe.
Yep. I don’t think it’s a performance issue. But I don’t get any logs either.
I use Firefox daily on 5-7 different machines. It’s your machine, not the browser lol
But I wonder, why. No other application behaves like this. Even heavyweights like Kdenlive start up within 2-3 seconds.
Unfortunately Firefox does not print anything out on command line so I have no way to debug this.
