Let's say I tried to show this to my brother in an attempt to make the boy degoogle and he went "I'm not a gigabite hoarder, they can have the 4."
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Why the fuck is anyone still using chrome? Or windows for that matter. If it’s a work computer, whatever, I get it, but get that shit off of your personal devices.
To be fair, some sites/things don’t work with Firefox, and keeping up with Chromium derivatives is a difficult task.
Hence most default to Brave. They got the SEO. They got the marketing money.
You have to dig deep into the internet to find Helium, Vivaldi, Cromite, Ungoogled Chromium, or whatever the fork de jure is. And that’s if you miss all the scamware.
Because I'm lazy and sometimes want to play battlefield
It's your laptop? You need to try not installing chrome on your own devices.
They called it weights.bin? That is trojan level of skullduggery.
Reminds me of when my brother was setting up anti-virus for a friend, I don't remember if it was the program or one of the folders to virus.bad
Damn, if only someone, anyone had ever warned against using Chrome.
The people willingly using a Google browser get what they get. This is a shining example of personal accountability.
People use the tools they have to get their tasks done. Not everyone wants to have the same weird hobbies we do.
most people are not aware of google’s shenanigans, and even less are aware that there are better alternatives
why not help people discover these alternatives instead of being an asshole?
Most people refuse to use these alternatives. Atleast in my cases.
Lol who is even using chrome still?
Edit: Yes guys I know, I am aware of the borderline monopoly Google has had on the browser space. My question should have been: Who is tech savvy and is using Google Chrome voluntarily?
I bet those numbers are inflated by work and school computers forcing it down your throat.
How many Lemmy users are on chrome.
Any admins have stats?
3.62 billion users as of March
...God damnit.
Well, at least one of those users might be my Flaresolverr machine with a Chrome user-agent header
They install it on my work laptop without my saying so. I uninstall it every time, and until they explicitly ask me to use it, I’m sticking with Firefox.
Ayy what's up twin.
"Oh our portals are only certified for Chrome. Firefox won't work."
I beg to differ.
Chrome's last genuine use died Aug 2024 when Puppeteer started supporting Firefox.
About 68% of the world according to this.
It’s even a vast majority in China.
That’s a little surprising.
Does that count people using programs that you can't control using chrome on the backend such as Steam? It wouldn't be installed at all on my system if it weren't for stuff such as that.
Electron identifies itself as electron in it's user agent so you could easily identify and separate it out.
Also I doubt most companies leave the user agent as the default, they probably change it for whatever version the app is.
Ah that makes sense, thanks for the info!
Which again confirms my assumption that most people are idiots.
Some might call you an idiot for "not wearing the right clothes" or "not eating X".
Just because others don't have the same amount of interest about something, albeit having some would help, doesn't mean they're idiots.
It's the most popular browser by user base. It's today's Internet Explorer.
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But don't worry, the model isn't used for any browser features users actually use, so it's just Google wasting petabytes of bandwidth to service a fraction of a percent of its userbase.
Can those posting here please mention their top alternative browsers for those engaging in this thread?
Helium.
Comes with full (not lite) UBlock, but Chromium based. It’s excellent.
If not chrome, what is a good browser to use nowadays? I like Firefox but the last year I keep bumping in to websites that don't work so we'll on Firefox. Mostly web apps. So then what is left?
I stay away from sites and services that don't work well on Firefox. Firefox complies with open web standards, if a site doesn't run well on Firefox it implies that the operator is doing something fucky that you'd probably not be OK with.
Firefox has been fine. I've thought about switching to one of the cooler forks but I haven't gotten off my ass yet.
This is your push, DO IT!
Librewolf and Waterfox have been running just fine for me
Do you use either of them on android? The syncing between android and desktop is nice in vanilla Firefox
Vivaldi is a productivity dream. Unfortunately it's built on chromium so it's not a complete break but it absolutely leaves every other browser in the dust in terms of how good it is. One of its best features is the ability to limit how much ram and CPU the browser as a whole uses or just certain sites. The amount of features it has is insane. Page tiling is my favourite one
+1 for Vivaldi. I keep expecting to hear that I've became out of the loop and it's turned into Brave without my knowing. It's a great concern. But so far, so excellent!
Limiting resources sounds cool. I wish I could at least determine why Firefox sometimes goes out of control eating everything. Setting a resource limit per page would be good too. Sometimes my whole computer is ground to a halt, but closing a single tab fixes it. Often not a page that is obviously doing much. Certain ecommerce sites are frequent culprits. Doing something in the background.
Firefox can tile two pages now: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/split-view/
Just use Zen Browser or LibreWolf and call it a day :D
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