The world has gone crazy. So this relative has casually used the most bloated spyware disguised as a browser for literally a decade, but she can't switch to firefox because 'Mozilla’s recent behavior'.
TBH I added the sentence about recent Mozilla behaviour because it pisses me off but it shouldn't be an argument, you're right.
I have both browsers icons next to each other and sometimes I launch the other by mistake. For normal browsing I only spot the difference due to various pages having different logins ie from my wife or not being logged in.
If somebody is able to use internet (god forbid even do some payments on it) then I am pretty sure they could understand the concept of another, very similar app with same behavior. Sometimes new releases change UI at least as much as those browsers differ between each other.
This is such an unfair comparison, where Google made billions on your user data and Mozilla is barely living off the scraps.
Clearly we should support Mozilla and not Google here.
Edit: Chromium forks/derivatives
Recently, I've noticed a "this SaaS only works in Chrome" trend again. Usually that means "only works in Blink" but it still sucks if you need to use SaaS (for work) that has this silly limitation. I've noticed cheaper restaurant web ordering software tends to have problems in Firefox.
For technical or even semi-technical folks those aren't an issue. For non-technical folks, those issues above can easily lead to a poorer web experience without them understanding why. On the other hand, the author didn't actually call out technical issues
We just don't want to see ads. Isn't that enough?
Think of those "click here to OPTIMIZE YOUR PC" adware junk you'd prefer anyone you provide tech support for to never see
Years ago when I had one of those Intel Atom netbooks you could tell a pretty big difference since it was pretty RAM constrained.
- tiny phone screen
- objectively worse mobile-site
- far worse touch-screen-based UI
- the entire iOS side of things has far fewer choices for any sort of effective ad blocking
Is it possible for a savvy technologist to overcome these problems? Yes, but it's like disabling junk in Windows: you're playing a game of cat and mouse and slowly losing the battle over time.
Dude there are ads on every browsers. And the goal here is to protect her from malwares, not trackers (well at least that's not a priority).
Given how intransparent the programmatic advertising industry is and how often malicious actors have abused such advertising networks to spread malware... there is no distinction to make.
Seeing: seeing https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/wiki/About-Goo...
And asking: What are the diff between manifest 2 and manifest 3 ext?
Answer: https://chat.mistral.ai/chat/9e66fbc8-0df2-4248-a252-5acb6fb...
What is the problem to move to M3? And why is this a ban?
To address this, I bought her a Fairphone with a de-googled Android operating system installed out of the box. This solution works well, especially for those who prefer not to use Apple products.
For enhanced ad-blocking and security, I set up an OpenWRT router in front of the provider's router. This includes features like Adblock, DNS over HTTPS (DoH), DNS over TLS (DoT), and DNSCrypt. This setup has been running smoothly in my parents' house for over three years without any issues.
An http proxy in Python is just a few lines of code. It could simply drop the requests to known ad servers.
And in Chrome, there is a setting to use a proxy.
So all one had to do is run ./my_ad_blocking_proxy.py and set the proxy in Chrome to something like 127.0.0.1:8080?
Good ad blocking requires you to be able to look at decrypted HTTPS traffic and remove content from the DOM, including stuff added after the fact by Javascript. That's why uBlock Origin works better than Adguard (which is a https MITM ad blocker) and why Adguard works better than Pihole (which doesn't usually MITM HTTPS).
Simple hosts blocking used to work OK two decades ago but these days so many ads are served directly from the same servers within the same HTTPS connection that it's just not enough.
ironically this also sounds like a security nightmare.
This would give the same flexibility without the need for a browser plugin.
Just yesterday I noticed it managed to block self hosted Snowplow (clickstream analytics) JS library without blocking other scripts on the same CDN/domain.
Much easier solution, which everyone should made years ago, STOP using Chrome crapbrowser.
