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Is this browser just going down hill now it seems to just do what it wants when it wants and struggles to open webpages, spell checker does not work on youtube but is fine in google even though all the setting are activated and the dictionary is installed. Is the peasant's browser coming to an end now?
 
It's been dying a slow death for over a decade from poor decision making, but they remain the best actor in the space and they've done and continue to do a lot of good for consumers and FOSS. We're lucky really that they've been as good as they have been and for as long as they have, it'll be a sad day when they turn to the dark side or turn off the lights.

They've been on the trend-chasing game for a while now which currently means AI nonsense, thankfully it can be disabled. Maybe spell checker functioning weirdly has something to do with that? IDK, firefox works well for me.
 
I've moved to a Firefox fork called Floorp. It was more the insistence of AI that pushed me.

I'm waiting with baited breath for Ladybird to be an actual alternative.
 
I switched to Brave recently. So far it's faster and the built in ad blocking works as well as ublock origin on firefox. I had to manually export bookmarks and passwords from firefox and import them into Brave but it worked perfectly. Worth checking out
 
49er said:
I switched to Brave recently. So far it's faster and the built in ad blocking works as well as ublock origin on firefox. I had to manually export bookmarks and passwords from firefox and import them into Brave but it worked perfectly. Worth checking out
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Google brave browser controversy.
 
49er said:
From what I've read all those issues were debunked. The only one that hasn't is their ceo being a bit of an a*** which most are anyway. Is there any browser that doesn't have some controversy around it?
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Blocking competing ads whilst trying to become an ad platform themselves cannot be debunked, it's fact. They're chrome with good marketing, an ad blocker and crypto scam nonsense built in.
 
santa said:
Blocking competing ads whilst trying to become an ad platform themselves cannot be debunked, it's fact. They're chrome with good marketing, an ad blocker and crypto scam nonsense built in.
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You can change privacy settings to block their own ads - though I haven't seen any ads myself even using the standard settings. Same with the crypto stuff it can be disabled. I don't think they're anywhere near Chrome in that regard. And I repeat there is no completely ethical browser out there - they're all trying to make a profit one way or the other.
 
Librewolf is nice but for the most part it's basically Firefox with branding + config changes, along with few codes being ripped out, I know they have AI related stuff scrubbed out, so even with AI options being left in and enabled, they wouldn't even work.

I just use Firefox with my own user.js changes to put it close to Librewolf in terms of security and privacy while keeping website breakage to a minimum, I do have Librewolf installed as a backup though, along with few other browsers, each browser has their own use case + specific sites I visit.
 
Firefox with ublock origin and noscript is all I've used for many many years, whitelisting the parts of websites you use often is a pain but most people don't use that many websites you're quickly just done, no ads on youtube no tracking that can be avoided. Used to have chrome for my bank which didn;t like firefox but it's since changed to working on all browsers as long as you spoof the user agent to windows (yes, the bank is terrible).
 
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