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Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome (arstechnica.com)

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

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I avoided chrome for a long time. Finally I made the switch because FF was getting too slow on old computers back in the day. Lasted for maybe five or six years before I started getting some bad vibes. Why am I letting google run the web browsing software I'm using? This can't/won't be good in the future.

At least five years ago I made the switch back to Firefox, and haven't looked back. I love having adblocking that works (I use a router level ad block and ublock origin just in case to ensure I block almost every ad on the internet lol).

I'm honestly surprised it took people this long to decide to move away from Chrome.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Firefox really became awesome after the quantum update. It really is the best browser to date imo.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Agreed.

My personal browser history:

IE - came with Windows, before I didn't really know what a browser was; we also had Mozilla, but only my dad used it
Firefox - as a teenager, I think I started at 1.5 and used until 3.5 or so
Chrome - it was faster than Firefox, so I used and recommended it to a lot of people; this is also when I started to care about web standards (tried to get IE users to use Chrome)
Opera - used for a couple years until they announced 15, which was going to be Chrome based
Firefox - I used Firefox off and on throughout, and remember the switch to rapid releases, and I've used it nearly exclusively (aside from Web Dev testing) since 2013 or so

Once Opera switched to Chrome-based, I started heavily recommending Firefox. So I saw the writing on the wall about 10 years ago, and now I'm stubborn about avoiding Chrome where possible. I hope others choose to switch too.