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Google Chrome’s uBlock Origin phaseout has begun (www.theverge.com)
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[–] RangerJosie@lemmy.world 167 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Chrome only exists to download Firefox.

[–] trespasser69@lemmy.world 56 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Just like how Micro$oft Windows is advertsiting Linux, Google Chrome advertsites Firefox!

[–] Nougat@fedia.io -4 points 2 months ago

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[–] zarlin@lemmy.world 45 points 2 months ago (1 children)

winget install firefox

No chrome (or edge) needed

[–] daddy32@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago (4 children)

You mean ’apt'.

[–] itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 months ago

you mean

{...}: {
  programs.firefox.enable = true;
}
[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago

Fun fact, apt apparently is an alias to zypper on my openSUSE Leap system.

[–] Grangle1@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago

'Yum' could work too.

[–] zarlin@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Your package manager of choice :)

[–] CatZoomies@lemmy.world 25 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Microsoft Edge: “Thank you, Chrome, for sharing the load.”

[–] scarabic@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Sad saga, but here we are. I remember when Chrome was new and brought much needed speed and low resource usage to the browsing experience of the day. I even got email from a Chrome engineer once about a bug I mentioned in a forum, asking me for more information.

Google was already an ad company by then so anyone could have looked forward to this inevitability. Some did. Most of us did not.

Chrome has just always been there for some younger people but it will now live in my memory as a fully encapsulated end-to-end enshittification experience that I really should have always expected.

And just like it used to be with Internet Explorer, I am forced to use Chrome at work all day because thats the IT & security approved / enterprise-managed browser.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I, too, switched to Chrome around when they launched due to drastically better performance. But shortly after (a couple years?), I found out Opera had similar performance and had cool other features, so I switched to that. Opera then converted to a Chrome-clone, so I switched to Firefox, which had largely caught up w/ performance by that time.

If you have the option, request that Firefox be added to the supported app list or whatever by your IT team. Tell them you need some Firefox-specific extensions or something for your job.

[–] scarabic@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don’t really care what’s installed on my work computer, which I use solely for work purposes. Should I?

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

You're the one using it, so I should think so...

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

Made me feel better when I said I wish I knew what would come, back in the day when I was installing Chrome for people - and someone here replied “hey we all wish we knew when we did that” 🫂

[–] grue@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Imagine having an OS that doesn't come with a proper package manager (and Firefox installed by default, for that matter).

[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 4 points 2 months ago

Tell that to the unwashed masses.