Comment on Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Chrome did
AndyMFK@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
So strange to me that people would choose to use edge or chrome when other free browsers exist that let you do what you want.
The internet without an ad blocker is basically unusable
EliteCloneMike@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
Me too, but Google pays billions to push Chrome as the default on devices. I think Google and Microsoft are awful companies nowadays. Chrome and Edge are basically spyware now. So are Google search and Bing. There are others, but for example Mozilla gets boatloads of money from Google to exist, Brave has had some privacy issue (AFAIK), and so have others had their share of problems or over reliance on Google or Microsoft. I use DuckDuckGo as my browser, but have been starting to use Tor more to keep up with preventing advertiser from tracking using digitally fingerprinting. DDG or StartPage for search are unfortunately both reliant on Microsoft and Google indexing, respectively, unfortunately. Kagi may be an option, but they don’t have a browser yet. Anyway, there are so many topics on this that I could go on and on.