Technology

So ... can we like finally dismiss Google Chrome as the obviously awful idea it is and which should never have made it this far and remind all of the web devs married to it that they're doing bad things and are the reason why we can't have nice things?

Hmmm ... a web browser owned by a monopolistic advertising company ... how could that possibly go wrong??!!

• XKCD: Infrastructures

Stop using Chrome, it is adware at this point. Use Firefox or if that's too different, use Brave or Edge or a different chromium offshoot that isn't going to support manifest v3.

I'm using brave so who cares..

Used Chrome forever, switched to Firefox back when this stuff first started going down. No ragerts.

Meh. They had plenty of time to move to Firefox but they ignored all the warnings.

Firefox.

This is the way.

In case anyone here needs this

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/switching-chrome-firefox

It deserves mentioning that Firefox on Android supports extensions, so if you uninstall/disable the official YouTube app then add uBlock Origin and Sponsorblock you get a more tolerable experience.

"The browser built to be yours"

Hahaha sure thing Google

Is ublock origin still operable for YouTube? Could this be related?

I've used Librewolf since the first time Google announced these kinda plans I'm thinking it must be at least 3 years now.

Theres tons of options Librewolf is overkill to be honest Firefox would be fine.

"intrusive ads" are the least of the problems, an adblocker is a critical part of any computer's security suite.

The internet advertisement companies wont police their ads from maleware, and untill they accept criminal and financial responsibillity when their ads cause harm to the users being served compromised ads from their networks, I won't even consider disabling my adblocker