• Guy_Fieris_Hair@lemmy.world
    105·
    3 years ago

    It is sad, but through the events of the last few years (Reddit, Twitter, politics) companies have realized they can do whatever they want. While they will lose a significant portion of users, the mass majority will stay. The ones that leave are the ones they can’t abuse and they don’t want them anyway. Profit is better taking advantage of the complacent and losing the activists than the other way around.

    Anywho, I will move to Firefox just like I moved to lemmy. Although I’m not sure moving to Firefox actually fixes anything other than giving Google less money. Now I just need to figure out how to have a phone without apple or Google getting a peice.

    • newproph@sh.itjust.works
      20·
      3 years ago

      google pixel 5 bought used, unlock the bootloader and flash it with grapheneOS. download Firefox with AdBlock and use fdroid and aurora store (found on fdroid) for apps.

            • Resistentialism@lemmy.wtfEnglish
              1·
              3 years ago

              To be fair, the only reason I can see for having a smart fridge is , if you’re at the shops or at work, and you need to check if you need anything, you can just use that.

              But, like, I can’t see any other purpose. And even that one is instantly voided by using that magical little thing, and making yourself a list.

          • Guy_Fieris_Hair@lemmy.world
            2·
            3 years ago

            I was just using it as an example because I just figured it out on my fridge (it’s useless). I was just trying to figure out if I would be going backwards 10 years if I switched, that was just the first thing that came to mind as an example.

            • SIGSEGV@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              1·
              3 years ago

              No, you do you. I just don’t understand the engineers’ motivation for creating an IoT fridge.

              From the creators of the IoT fridge comes the first IoT toilet, complete with a bowl camera and mic that stares up your ass and notifies your family when the bathroom is in use and whose taking a crap. You can even review your past shits in 4k! 😛

              • Guy_Fieris_Hair@lemmy.world
                2·
                3 years ago

                I could maybe see some uses for a fridge on wifi. The only useful things it does is notify me if the temp rises beyond a point or if the door is left open for a really long time. As far as the temp rising without the door open the only cause is either the fridge failed ( It better fucking not) or the power went out. If the power goes out, so does my router so…

                • SIGSEGV@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                  1·
                  3 years ago

                  That is actually somewhat useful. I don’t know if that use-case is worth it to me, personally, to have a potentially insecure device on my home network, but I suppose you could give it its own network and write decent firewall rules to protect your other gear.

        • ruination@discuss.tchncs.de
          3·
          3 years ago

          You can get yourself sandboxed Google Play Services and everything should work fine. Personally, I have a separate profile for apps that need it.

        • newproph@sh.itjust.works
          1·
          3 years ago

          sorry ik it’s months later. yes, things work for the most part. anything that doesn’t I just enable exploit protection compatibility mode for and it works no problem then. you can even just straight up install Google play as a normal app without admin privileges.

    • Queen HawlSera@lemm.eeEnglish
      6·
      3 years ago

      What really has me paranoid is all the ones suddenly deciding to power trip and give out bans over nothing. We need to create a safe place on the web where the corporations can’t get to us.

      • nasi_goreng@lemmy.zip
        4·
        3 years ago

        TikTok already did this in Indonesia.

        They remove any videos that being critical towards TikTok. Especially, they’re trying to flood Indonesian market with cheap Chinese goods via TikTok Shop.

    • Resonosity@lemmy.ca
      6·
      3 years ago

      Fairphone 4 from certain vendors comes preloaded with e/OS which is like a deGoogled Android. Might work for people looking to move away from Google. I’m considering it myself for my next phone.

  • Custoslibera@lemmy.worldEnglish
    28·
    3 years ago

    I never liked Chrome. The way it made sponsored search results a really difficult to see shade of yellow made me realise where their priorities were long ago.

    As such I have always used Firefox.

    Yes, I am feeling pretty smug right about now given how correct I am/was about Google pulling some even more dickish move with Chrome.

        • Unaware7013@kbin.social
          15·
          3 years ago

          Ungoogled or not, chromium is still a problem. It has become the defacto render engine, and Google is pulling the same shit as MS did with IE.

          • Benjameee@snowstorm.online
            2·
            3 years ago

            Some day someone is gonna have to explain this take to me.

            Standards for the web are a good thing. Websites being slightly different to straight up breaking depending on what browser you use is an awful user experience.

            I see nothing wrong with everyone defaulting to blink and v8. Makes the web better for everyone be it users or developers.

            Chromium is open source! It feels like people’s blind hatred / paranoia of big tech makes people reject it on principle more than anything.

            • strepto@kbin.social
              5·
              3 years ago

              Standards are good. What’s not good is that Google controls the standards.

              Open source or not, Google currently has the ability to dictate web standards as they see fit.

              Why? There are 2 reasons:

              • Chrome has a 63.55% marketshare (as of the time of this writing) of all web browser usage
              • Maintaining your own fork of Chromium or even your own separate browser engine (Like Firefox does) is extremely difficult.

              There’s a reason so many of these browsers just use Chromium. It’s because Google is doing the Lion’s share of the work. Modern web browsers are some of the most complicated pieces of software ever written. They are comparable in complexity to entire operating systems.

              When Google makes a change to the Chromium project everyone follows suit, lest you fork it which leaves development and ensuring interoperability entirely up to you. The complexity of this task depends on how far you want to take your browser.

              Even those who fork Chromium will pull changes made by Google to the original Chromium project because making and maintaining your own web browser is really, really difficult.

            • Stoneykins [any]@mander.xyz
              5·
              3 years ago

              They are trying to develope enough dependency on them that they could stop being open source and the majority of browsers and websites dependent on their development just fold and allow google to control the internet.

              Big companies only let stuff be open source in order to rugpull it if and when it would allow them to be successfully anticompetitive.

        • Contend6248@feddit.de
          1·
          3 years ago

          Well that’s the whole fun of 50 chromium forks, upstream which is chromium will fuck them up, they will make breaking changes just so that forks can finally not steer around it without putting heavy lifting in it.

    • Pfnic@feddit.ch
      7·
      3 years ago

      If it had to be a chromium browser, I guess I’d try Vivaldi. I’m happy with Librewolf and Firefox though.

    • xtrudrx@lemmy.dropdoos.nl
      3·
      3 years ago

      That would be either Firefox or LibreWolf then since all the others including Opera are Chromium based under the hood. Let’s support true Open Source.

  • Facelikeapotato@lemmy.ml
    1·
    3 years ago

    I tried to switch to Firefox, but I fill out a lot of forms, and it doesn’t have autofill for them. It makes it very slow and frustrating. I’ve searched for solutions to activate it, add ons for it, etc to no avail. It seems that function may only be available in the US? It’s strange to have such a basic feature missing.