Google is weakening ad blockers as part of their MV3 extension standard and this will trickle down into all Chromium browsers. Built in ad blockers lack features compared to uBlock Origin as well.

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    18 days ago

    Unfortunately, your statement probably only deserves bothsides.jxl. Please attempt to honestly and objectively compare things, despite the personal inconvenience.

    They make mistakes, but Firefox and Mozilla are obviously nowhere near as fucked up as Chrome and Google by any measure. And Firefox would only improve if people stopped running back to Chrome when something was not perfect.

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      17 days ago

      As for that context you’re missing, I’m counting them as equally bad because they run the same privacy violating approach to tracking user data and putting it where it shouldn’t go

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      17 days ago

      Pretend privacy or anti privacy

      I’d say they both are bad except pretend privacy is much worse.

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      17 days ago

      Maybe actually read or ask for context. I didn’t include it in the comment because I figured that people who care enough to ask would ask