Mastodawn

It's not a secret that Google isn't the apple of our eye (there's a reason why we don't make any money from search deals with them) but yesterday's announcement about the changes coming to Google Search are plain depressing for the web as we know it. What started as a joke (the famous "It's not AI" video with @jon), is starting to feel dystopian at this point.

Anyway. Swimming against the current is exhausting, but the fight for a better web is more important than ever. And as long as there’s people willing to take the fight, there’s hope. 🔥 So we'll keep resisting: no opt-in, no opt-out, no nonsense. ✊

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Marta Threadbare 1d ago

@Vivaldi @jon still, you are helping Google in making their thing the entire browser ecosystem :( we have been at a point where making a chromium based thing is actively harmful for some time.

And I'm not attacking you (I actually like Vivaldi, it's the only chromium based thing I recommend to people who can't get used to Firefox or any of its forks), just pointing out the current situation is shit.

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Marta Threadbare

@Vivaldi @jon I'm now remembering when Opera was "still Opera", at the time I used to read dev blogs sometimes. Don't remember the specifics but I remember a bunch of instances of devs complaining how gmail or google docs suddenly failed, were rendered wrongly or showed "your browser is not compatible" but if you changed the user agent to chrome everything worked fine.
Or devs wondering if they should implement this or that css tag as the standard defined it or implement webkit's dirty hack instead because that's what web devs were using anyways... google has been hurting the internet as much as they could at every moment.

Switching to chromium was the death of Opera. Starting a new browser from Opera's ashes but still using chromium makes it hard to believe you fight for the open internet. Like not even you believe it.

(And again this comes from a place of love and sadness.)