EliteCloneMike
@EliteCloneMike@lemmy.zip
- Comment on Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Chrome did 2 weeks 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.
- Comment on Remembering the pre-Google web, when search was an experiment 2 weeks ago:
Post-Google search can’t come soon enough. They had a good start, but are now so full of greed. Personally, I avoid Google services (at least directly and block their trackers on websites as best as I can) like the plague nowadays. Google should be broken up as they are too bloated now and are highly monopolistic.
- Comment on Google and Epic give up fighting — third-party Android app stores are coming next week 5 weeks ago:
Yea, that’s the announcement I was talking about. Still not sure of the release date, but I am very excited for it.
- Comment on Google and Epic give up fighting — third-party Android app stores are coming next week 1 month ago:
I am looking forward to the day that GrapheneOS comes out on a non-Pixel phone like the upcoming Razor. Not sure when it will be out and hope it doesn’t get killed.