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Why not fight fire with fire? Consider checking for the Chrome user agent on your personal website. When you detect it, either: 1. Display a screen that encou
by dont__panic 4y ago
Why not fight fire with fire?
Consider checking for the Chrome user agent on your personal website. When you detect it, either:
1. Display a screen that encourages to use a browser that respects their privacy, such as Firefox.
2. Show a popup explaining that "for an ad-free experience, try Firefox + uBlock" and add a bunch of fake (or real) ads to a special Chrome-exclusive piece of the site.
If enough of us do this with personal websites, more and more people will stop using Chrome and start using Firefox. You don't even have to cut Chrome users off from the content -- just annoy them a little, and suggest Firefox.
After all, if Google refuses to fix bugs introduced by Google developers who don't test software in browsers other than Chrome (https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1069227 https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1069227), the least that the rest of us can do is fight back in some small way.
- MikeHolman 4y ago>If enough of us do this with personal websites, more and more people will stop using Chrome and start using Firefox. You don't even have to cut Chrome users off from the content -- just annoy them a little, and suggest Firefox. It's a nice idea, but your personal website doesn't matter. Most people go to a Google website at least a few times a day, and they already tell you to switch to Chrome for the best experience. And almost all of the top non-Google websites also have a vested interest in less adblockers, so none are going to riot over this.
- Fatnino 4y agoOnly the Google homepage tries to push you back to Chrome, iirc. And there is no reason to ever visit it since search is built in to all browsers now.