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Google is ruining the entire web (feddit.de)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[+] [email protected] -19 points 1 year ago (5 children)

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

I had to adjust a ton of settings to stop it from downloading in the background every file I just wanted to view or print,

Well, you can't view or print a file without downloading it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Despite turning off settings to open new tabs, every website I open browsing on mobile opens a new tab

That shouldn't happen, I've just set Homepage > Opening screen to last tab and when I open firefox it defaults to the last tab that I was on before exiting the browser

I had to adjust a ton of settings to stop it from downloading in the background every file I just wanted to view or print

Iirc its just setting browser.download.open_pdf_attachments_inline to true at about:config

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Honestly, after this latest stunt by Google and Brave's growing list of issues, I recently switched to Firefox myself. It was actually surprisingly less painful than it was switching from Chrome to Brave.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Give Vivaldi a try, it's a chromium fork but with a strong focus on privacy.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fair enough, you have an opinion, that firefox is wrong in everything it does, it's not valid, but you need to learn the defaults. Be well.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Fair enough, you have an opinion, that firefox is wrong in everything it does

That's not what they are saying though. A lot of this is configurable for a reason.

but you need to learn the defaults

I don't think that they do. They have see. They don't like the defaults and it's their right to change them. That's the whole point of configurable FOSS ffs.