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[–] jk1006@feddit.org 13 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

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 :-(

[–] Pixel101a@lemm.ee 1 points 21 minutes ago (1 children)

People not using Firefox is Mozilla's fault. Just look at how their mobile browser performs. It's so much worse than any chromium browser.

[–] DrQuickbeam@lemmy.world 1 points 3 minutes ago

I've been using Firefox mobile since they enabled extensions on it a little over a year ago on my Pixel 9 and haven't had any performance issues with it. My only complaint is that it doesn't handle form auto fills, or opening links associated with apps as well as chrome, but I think that's because of chrome's inherent ties into the OS. I prefer Opera on desktop for the UI and features.

[–] Zzyzx@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

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...

[–] John@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

May you can install Linux on your Chromebook Have a look at

[–] Zzyzx@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 hours ago

I've considered that before. I'm just not sure I'm proficient enough to be able to do that on my own. I can apparently buy laptops with Linux as the OS from a tech store where I live, so I may eventually go that route.

[–] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago

Chrome? I've heard of that once.

[–] jam_scot@lemmy.world 15 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I switched to Firefox many years ago, after their announcement I switched to Waterfox and I'm very happy with it.

[–] FactualPerson@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

How did you choose Waterfox? Are there any resources that compare these FF forks?

[–] fika@lemm.ee 1 points 4 minutes ago* (last edited 3 minutes ago)

Not Waterfox, but others is listed here https://www.privacytools.io/private-browser

Worth to be mentioned are also

https://floorp.app/en

but the best IMO https://zen-browser.app/

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 hours ago

That was a loud ball drop from Google’s hands.

[–] MindlessHunter4@sh.itjust.works 20 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Glad I don't use chrome anymore. Though unfortunately everyone else I know still does.

[–] knexcar@lemmy.world 64 points 12 hours ago (30 children)

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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[–] Pulsar@lemmy.world 10 points 9 hours ago

Webserial is only reason I see to install Chrome. For everything else Firefox works great.

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