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[-] Goodie@lemmy.world 126 points 1 year ago

If you don't like how Google is able to do this, know it's because of it's market share, and you should just use Firefox.

[-] sndrtj@feddit.nl 9 points 1 year ago

I've been on Firefox for years. Was never much of a problem, but lately there's more and more sites that require a Chromium-based browser. Some of them quite crucial. A list from experience:

  1. My bank's mortgage page
  2. Microsoft Teams - only supports Chrome, safari and edge on MacOs.
  3. Microsoft Office - has weird quirks on MacOs
  4. The new Adobe Express, requires Chrome or Edge
  5. Google Meet - after years google still only supports Chromium-based browsers if you wish to use video effects
  6. Microsoft's new video editing thing
[-] Anemervi@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

It's not uncommon for such sites to work fine in Firefox if you just add a user agent switcher addon, so that is worth trying (can be limited to specific sites so you advertise Firefox usage for others).

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