looks like rendering adblockers extensions obsolete with manifest-v3 was not enough so now they try to implement DRM into the browser giving the ability to any website to refuse traffic to you if you don’t run a complaint browser ( cough…firefox )

here is an article in hacker news since i’m sure they can explain this to you better than i.

and also some github docs

  • nevernevermore
    109•1 year ago

    helped with formatting:

    Chrome -> Firefox

    Drive -> sync or Dropbox or any number of options

    Sheets and productivity tools > libre office or Apache open office

    YouTube -> Invidious or even better, odysse

    Google search -> duck duck go, SearXNG, StartPage, etc

    Gmail -> not a ton of great options. I’d probably recommend proton mail but the FOSS email world is definitely lacking, or gets blocked or goes down, harder to self host etc.

    And I agree for sure. In order I use firefox (and brave sometimes), Proton Drive, Apple Productivity suite (pages, numbers etc), and either startpage or qwant, and proton mail. I do still use use YouTube Premium, but the point is Google doesn’t need to have its fingers in every aspect of my digital life.

    • @ANIMATEK@lemmy.world
      28•1 year ago

      While I get your spirit… Dropbox belongs to google too 😂 they are everywhere! Worse than the plague.

      • @TechnoBabble@lemm.ee
        34•1 year ago

        For many people, Google controls the entire network stack from their ISP, router, OS, DNS, their browser, all the way down to the platform hosting the content they watch.

        Google has captured such a wide part of the Internet that any changes they make will have at least a moderate effect on our lives. Even if we don’t use any Google services.

        The only thing that can stop them is probably the EU at this point. And I’m sure Google has a plan for that.

        • Rikudou_Sage
          5•1 year ago

          They can’t have a plan for that. They have two options: conform or leave EU.

            • Rikudou_SageEnglish
              2•1 year ago

              EU is widely adopting the policy of fining by a percentage of global revenue which is what hurts even the largest companies, precisely to avoid “just pay the EU”.

      • nevernevermore
        4•1 year ago

        i didn’t write the quoted list, just helped the OP with his formatting. I use proton drive, not dropbox.

        • rastilin
          6•1 year ago

          I had no idea Proton Drive was a thing. I’ll switch to it, Dropbox is becoming incredibly obnoxious with the advertising popups and notifications.

      • Magnor
        7•1 year ago

        Yes, something like collabora would be a better fit, although I never managed to get an actual instance of the thing running.

          • Magnor
            1•1 year ago

            Well I tried this and… I just can’t get to run properly. Tried docker, AIO, separate installs :(

            • @u_tamtam@programming.dev
              1•1 year ago

              I found that quite easy, for once: I have a bare NC instance and I installed 2 add-ons (the integration bits and the CODE server that IIRC drops an appimage of the actual collabora server). Unless you have hundreds of users, that’s about as much admin as you need :)

    • @boonhet@lemm.ee
      1•1 year ago

      Nextcloud technically does much of what Drive does, but my instance is buggy lol

      Still, costing me nothing to run for now, AWS 12 month free tier. Will move to a VPS somewhere not-aws before that’s over.