Google is trying to put the web in a cage in the same way they put your devices in a cage (Android, ChromeOS).
There’s one really easy, simple and efficient way to fight them: uninstall Chrome/Chromium, use #firefox
Do it. Now.
– But I prefer Chrome because of…
If you are not ready to sacrifice a little comfort (so little, Firefox is great) to save the web, then you don’t deserve a free web anyway. You are part of those killing it.
Remove Chrome. Install Firefox.
(with adblockers)
@ploum Or work to cripple the telemetry and undesirable features of Chrome.
Firefox is introducing functionality where the browser silently disables plugins/extensions on Mozilla-specified sites.This makes me feel that "just use FF" isn't exactly a panacea. It's a choice of overlords.
@damnitjanet together with using #Firefox, we need to work towards getting its development financed independent from Google.
For example by finding ways to pay Igalia and other independent free-software-friendly browser-develpment companies for FF development.
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@ArneBab I highly doubt that will be the case. Google's WEI will rein in a number of people, but they will be seeing Google's image of the 'net, not the real 'net. That will become increasingly enshittified, and people will bail.
Google, MS, etc. will only co-operate for so long together before they try to one-up each other and the whole house of cards falls.
Also, for the record, I *am already* a FF user, so if you're gunning for a conversion, give yourself the point, I guess.
@damnitjanet Currently it’s already hard to take part in social life without proprietary apps.
Sadly people bail not to non-treacherous FOSS, but to new shiny apps that will become enshittyfied in time, too.
@ArneBab Agreed. However, the assumption that everyone is one of those people and needs to be cajoled and coerced into doing the "right" thing seriously needs to stop.
I use FF and Chrome. Why Chrome? Because it's necessary for stuff I do at work.
PS: I've been around free software for some time. I don't want to hear about how I need to reject, resist, and make my work more difficult to be a gold-star FOSS advocate. I'm the expert on my particular situation. Agreed?
@damnitjanet @ArneBab
The fact that "it is necessary for stuff you do at work" is the problem. A browser should never become necessary, which is the definition of a monopoly, and open the gate for google to dictate the development of the web.
But I agree with you on that point, it is probably not easy, neither simple to uninstall chrome.
What else could we do ?
*PS personally: I never installed chrome, so I miss a lot of information about how easy or simple it is for others to uninstall it.
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