The "Manifest V3" rollout is back after letting tensions cool for a year.

Google Chrome will limit ad blockers starting June 2024::The “Manifest V3” rollout is back after letting tensions cool for a year.

  • tsonfeir@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Everything Google does is evil. How are people still using anything they make—or control the repo for (chromium, android)

    • Alex@feddit.roEnglish
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      1 year ago

      At least Android actually gives you freedom. What other alternatives (that actually work) are there? I’d rather have a phone with an OS made by an evil corp that I can actually control, than an OS that doesn’t even let me install apps not approved by the manufacturer.

      • Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Using a degoogled LineageOS was great. It’s just that the world around it has changed so much that doing certain things wasn’t really viable any more. Having a phone like that in 2010 would have been awesome, but nowadays it’s really inconvenient. Nowadays, there are some highly unfortunate software needs that don’t quite fit with this philosophy any more.

        I didn’t come up with the idea that my bank requires an app, and that the app absolutely requires an OEM phone with a normal Android and GAPPS. They started requiring that nonsense, which put me in a tight spot. Do I decide to live without money or will I switch to an inferior OS.

        There are also some nice to have apps that came up with similar stupid decisions. Living without them means living in the past, and I would be ok with that too. Getting a minor inconvenience in return of having more privacy is ok with me. Suffering significant inconveniences is not OK. I had to draw the line somewhere, which unfortunately meant switching away from LineageOS.

        I went with iOS, because IMO it’s the least bad option out there. I made some horrible compromises, but at least I can live in 2023 like everyone else. I’m not at all happy with this decision, but at least iOS isn’t half as infuriating as it used to be 10 years ago.

        • Alex@feddit.roEnglish
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          1 year ago

          I use a phone with LOS and I haven’t had any problems with it. Though I am 13, so I don’t have to worry about stuff like banks apps yet.

          • Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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            1 year ago

            LOS is good for a lot of things, so keep on using it until you run into a brick wall like I did. Hopefully, someone has already figured out a solution by then or maybe you can just choose to use a different app instead.

            • Alex@feddit.roEnglish
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              11 months ago

              I’m 13, I’ll probably be able to choose what banks I keep my money at and other stuff like this based on their support for my OS.

      • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 year ago

        It’s been forever since I last looked, but can’t you actually change what fonts are used from within Firefox directly?

      • Corhen@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Weird do you have a screen shot you can share? they look fine to me.

        Could it be something withyour windows installation?

        • Akinzekeel@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          1 year ago

          Here is a picture that demonstrates the problem. On the left is Firefox and on the right Thorium (Chromium). I’ve had this problem on Windows before but now I’m using Linux and it’s the same unfortunately.

            • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              1 year ago

              Using DuckDuckGo (Android), which is chromium-based, it has the same problem, all text weights are bolded at the maximum values.

              It looks like Firefox is trying to be more respectful of the text weights, when deciding how to bold text.

          • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            1 year ago

            Here is a picture that demonstrates the problem. On the left is Firefox and on the right Thorium (Chromium).

            If I’m understanding that screenshot correctly, it looks like Thorium (Chromium) is ignoring the text values and bolding any of them at the max bolding value, where Firefox respects the text values and bolts off of that just slightly.

    • letsgo@lemm.eeEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I have Chrome configured as my default browser, armed to the teeth against any possible misbehaviour such as no Javascript. Anything that tries to open a website automatically goes there, and if it wants to work properly has to get onto my whitelist or gets its URL copypasted into Firefox.

      I use Firefox as my main browser. It doesn’t seem to like not being my default browser and complains regularly about it, but there’s no way to explain my setup to it so I have to keep saying “no” to the prompt (to be fair it’s only at update time when this happens, and even then it’s occasional so no big deal). JS is on by default but I still have uBO, Enhancer for YT, I don’t care about cookies, and a few other extensions.