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Jeff Fortin T. (風の庭園のNekohayo)Jul 25, 2023

A list of recent hostile moves by #Google's #Chrome team; handy for sharing with your entourage, to explain why they should stop using #Chromium / #GoogleChrome and use #Firefox or #Epiphany as their main #web #browser :

* The "Manifest v3" sabotage of content blocking extensions: https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/10/23131029/mozilla-ad-blocking-firefox-google-chrome-privacy-manifest-v3-web-request
* The attempted sabotage of #JPEGXL: https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/chrome-banishes-jpeg-xl-photo-format-that-could-save-phone-space/
* #WebEnvironmentIntegrity a.k.a. #DRM for whole websites would hurt the web, #opensource browsers and OSes: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/07/googles-web-integrity-api-sounds-like-drm-for-the-web/

Firefox and Chrome are squaring off over ad-blocker extensions

Mozilla, the makers of the Firefox browser, has said that ad blocking at the network level will be supported in its implementation of the Manifest V3 standard, drawing a contrast with Google Chrome.

The Verge

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GanWeaving Aug 3, 2023

@nekohayo if Chrome blocks ad-blockers then I'm gone

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Sandra Aug 3, 2023

@WeavingWithAI

The WEI proposal goes further than that. It's a way for websites to block people who are using any kind of modified browsers, including adblockers. So it'd not just be Chrome disabling adblockers but them making it so that websites will break for all non-WEI–browsers.

@nekohayo, thank you for mentioning Epiphany! Such a great browser 👍🏻

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Jeff Fortin T. (風の庭園のNekohayo)Aug 3, 2023

@Sandra @WeavingWithAI
Of course! #Epiphany / #GNOMEWeb is one of the very few non-Blink-engine FLOSS #browsers out there. For this reason, and since I'm a @gnome contributor, I've been helping Epiphany & @WebKitGTK with lots of bug reporting & testing in recent months, so that we don't just have "Firefox vs the world".

My performance tracker bug: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=245783

My big UX wish: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/epiphany/-/issues/1835

245783 – (GLibPerformance) [GTK] Slow performance issues tracker bug (scrolling, animations, drag & drop, input)

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Pixel Purrito

@nekohayo @Sandra @WeavingWithAI @WebKitGTK @gnome thanks for all the bug reporting and testing effort! We may not say it often but it's super appreciated, and has already helped to ship performance improvements 🤩

Of course there is still work to do, and usually the main complication is figuring out where exactly the problems are—web engines are huge and complex!