As read from my Mozilla Firefox…
So . . . exactly what stealth crap is hidden in the Chrome “update?”
" . . . but it’s also the day Google started to pull the plug on many Manifest V2 extensions as its rollout of Manifest V3 takes shape."
Ahhhh, there we go. Manifest 3 will break almost all Chrome adblockers.
why do I feel like this about the new ad block policy stuff
Amazing how these big corps hate freedom.
HOW CAN I DELETE SOMETHING I DON’T HAVE!!!
Screams in existential crisis
Ok I’ll delete it. Thanks Google.
I already did 5 years ago
Meanwhile my school still uses Chrome v109 since that was the last version that supported Windows 8
i doubt windows 8 or 9 ever really existed
We still use it in biology ,but not in IT we have windows 10 or 11 on them I always install Firefox on them if it isn’t already there one time some Ukrainian kid set the language .
Slava ukrayini
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We get it guys, you use Firefox.
On Arch, btw
Would you like to take a moment to talk about our lord and savior, Firefox ?
Awfully convenient for this to come along to coincide with.chrome new manifest change
What a pos company
I really need to start to de-google my life
Check out https://www.privacyguides.org, they have a bunch of useful info and recommendations.
Remember, it’s not an all-or-nothing situation, every step you take away from google helps. And you can always reevaluate later, and take time to figure out what works best for you.
Will do, thanks!
Do it!
I’m still working on it, but I’ve cut out quite a bit. Start with Chrome, and work your way down.
When you get to email, Gmail has a very convenient forwarding feature so you can forward all email to the new one while you change accounts and whatnot. I made a new account elsewhere, and I have a separate folder for email from my old Gmail and my new email. Every so often I’ll go fix an account or two, so I’m making steady progress.
For me, docs/drive is the hardest, so I’m doing it last. I’m playing with self-hosted options, and am still in an adjustment period.
I fully did it like eight years ago and I don’t miss it at all.
Sync.com was my solution to replacing Google Drive. It was the only one I could find that actually did everything Google Drive did (and is less expensive). They’re honest and communicative, unlike Dropbox or Google.
The biggest hurtle for me are Google maps, google photos and all the sites that i have signed up with google
Try OrganicMaps. It’s the best OpenStreetMaps backed app I’ve ever used, and I’ve tried almost all of them for 10 years now.
Yup, both are difficult. But you can at least use maps anonymously if you do it from a separate profile, which can help a little.
But just knock one out at a time and eventually it won’t seem as hard to switch to a competitor.
Why foes government allow spyware on its own hardware?
My govt website and other things allow only latest Microsoft edge and Google Chrome. Firefox isn’t allowed it seems.
headlines have focused on the detrimental effect this will have on ad blockers, which will need to adopt a complex workaround to work as now. There is a risk that users reading those headlines might seek to delay updating their browser, to prevent any ad blocker issues; you really shouldn’t go down this road—the security update is critical.
It’s almost like tying together feature updates with security updates was a deliberate choice by tech companies so that they could tell users shit exactly like this.
How can there be any real market choices when software literally tells users “for your own safety, you must abandon the things you want, and take the things we give you”. How can consumers influence the direction of the product if they never have the option to decline that direction?
How can consumers influence the direction of the product if they never have the option to decline that direction?
They always have an option, they just don’t have the balls to actually do it.
When it comes to open source software, market choices aren’t nearly as necessary because new ones can be created at will and very low cost by forking. But in the abstract thech companies are definitely not interested in choices. Choices don’t maximize profits.
Maintaining a fork of Chromium would cost millions to do it responsibly.
We’re all trying to figure out where these headlines came from. The stable channel with all the fixes does not (at this time) bundle the warning. How is that users have become confused and believe the dev channel is the only way to get security fixes?
The headline is supposedly CISA urging users to either update or delete Chrome — it’s not Chrome/Google itself. However, I’m having trouble finding the actual CISA alert. It’s not linked in the article as far as I can tell.
I always use Mozilla Firefox
sips hot chocolate
So that isn’t my concern.
Add Linux on top to finish them all off
So google manufactured a (possibly false) security risk to force users into updating to manifest v3 software?
its not a false security risk, it really is unsecure to withhold updates.
the bullshit comes from what they are doing.
