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Built and controlled by the largest ad company in the world, and recently removed crucial ad blocking APIs?

• hedora 2y ago
  Also, oh my god, the enshittifcation! I had to install it for some work thing, and booting a clean copy reminds me of a peak pre-loaded-software windows box. All they need to add to reach full feature parity is a Candy Crush captcha that gates the “login to enhance google tracking” and “switch search engines” dialogs. I honestly don’t understand how people put up with the boiled frog crap from Google. The last time I ran a test query, the ads pushed 100% of the search results off the front page.
  • arccy 2y ago
    that sounds like you installed edge not chrome...
• TZubiri 2y ago
  so you want software you don't pay for but you also don't want ads in your gratis software. and I imagine also that you are a software dev and you want to get paid for your efforts yourself. Got it.
  • Novosell 2y ago
    You don't know if they would be willing to pay or not. I'd be willing to pay for a browser which truly had its users best in mind. As far as I know, no such browser exists.
    • TZubiri 2y ago
      If you are willing to pay, there's Microsoft Edge or Apple's Safari. Remind me what's wrong with those again?
      • gkbrk 2y ago
        These browsers are both free though. You can download both Edge [1] and Safari [2] from their websites. > Remind me what's wrong with those again? Edge is a Chromium re-skin, which has the exact same problems of being controlled by Google. And it has tons of Microsoft spyware added on top. Safari is pretty good, but it only works on Mac OS. If they released it for Windows and Linux I bet it would be very popular. [1]: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/edge/download https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/edge/download [2]: https://developer.apple.com/safari/resources/ https://developer.apple.com/safari/resources/
      • Novosell 2y ago
        I know you know what paying for something means, so I don't know why you wasted your time on this comment.