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Manifest v3 is Worse than I Thought (tube.kockatoo.org)

submitted 10 months ago by ozoned@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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A great video about the Manifest v3 and how Google is trying to make you view ads.

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[–] lemmyreader@lemmy.ml 18 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Agreed on using Firefox/LibreWolf and uBlock Origin, I love that combination. I think the thing is that Google Chrome is much faster than Firefox on Android phones (I don't mind, I hardly ever use mobile to browse), and long time habits can be hard to break for some people.

[–] ziixe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Yup, can say that firefox is quite a bit slower on android (but honestly it's still quite ok, unless it decides to loop loading the page, or it bugs out in another way, at least on my phone it's quite prone to breaking, for comparison brave is really a bit faster than Firefox

[–] admiralteal@kbin.social 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Way faster when you consider time spent loading and navigating around all the fucking ads. The mobile web without adblock is a dumpster fire of the highest order.

[–] ziixe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Well of course, that's why I compared brave and not chrome, although the brave adblock sucks sometimes

But yeah, the firefox on android is good enough to set it as a default browser (never actually noticed that the Google discover page just opens in chrome and ignores your default browser before doing this, interesting how some apps do this too)

[–] StopSpazzing@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Disable chrome/browser on android

[–] admiralteal@kbin.social 2 points 10 months ago

Yeah the Google News app too. It's fucking useless -- any time you click something on it you get served up a page of nothing but ads, modals, autoplays, and other unusable crap. Bouncing around as it loads. I had to finally uninstall it and switch to just a bookmark on the homescreen instead.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Yeah, it IS slower on android, but adblocking more than makes up for it IMO.

[–] ziixe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Also not only that, but the ability to let me choose if I want to open a link in an app or not, happens countless times with stuff like GitHub automatically wanting to redirect to the app (which sucks)

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago

oh there was a bug a few versions back that did this, but it seems they fixed it now

[–] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 3 points 10 months ago

Google Chrome is much faster than Firefox on Android phones

Not with the ads (Firefox Android has uBlock).