• pastaPersona@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Sometimes I get curious about chromium based browsers and consider giving them a shot for a while.

    Then Google does shit like this and I keep mainlining Firefox out of spite. Half the reasons people experience “issues” with Firefox are just dumb garbage like this (see sites / web content being developed with Chrome-based in mind)

    • _number8_@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      the website DRM thing is one of the most blackpilled and evil uses of technology i’ve ever seen

      the people in charge of developing that should be put in a padded room and never allowed to see sunlight again. fucking god.

      • ImFresh3x@sh.itjust.works
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        1 year ago

        I mean this in the least condescending way:

        as far as I’m aware, even after looking it up, I think you are misusing the term blackpill.

        Blackpill usually refers to a manosphere/Incel or Qanon type who has given up completely and lost all hope. In the the case of an Incel it’s that there’s no hope in ever escaping Inceldom. In the case of q anon it’s that none of the predictions about the “storm” will ever arise or come true.

        I looked around and couldn’t find any other contexts that it’s used.

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_pill?wprov=sfti1#

        I am willing to accept that I could be wrong. But I looked all over search results etc.

      • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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        1 year ago

        DDG, even though apparently a Bing front end, gives legit better results than google

        • It’s honestly good. It misses that “Algorithm profile” that Google has where it starts to “understand” what you mean but it’s still pretty good.

          (Example. If I type in “genocide” in Google, it knows I often look for Undertale related things and pushes “Undertale genocide route” related content. For DDG I need to be clearer about what I mean)

          It took a bit getting used to but I prefer it this way now.

      • Amends1782@lemmy.ca
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        1 year ago

        DDG is legit great and even sometimes better than Google search now. I also am a SearXNG enjoyer

    • Katana314@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I think it’s still possible to ethically use Chromium browsers, so long as it’s one of them that’s been reviewing and removing anything ludicrous Google adds. I don’t even mind MS Edge on most of my computers for the most part. Firefox doesn’t load well on my tablet.

    • Tattorack@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I have never had a reason to switch from Firefox. I used Chrome once out of curiosity, but I didn’t like it.