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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Not sponsored, I just genuinely like the product. Adguard doesn't require manifests because it works outside the browser.

On the other news I hope this bullshit is finally the straw that kills chrome.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The people who don't run ad-blockers are many, and stupid.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Hope springs eternal. Most people without an adblocker don't even notice that their web experience has become an ad-ridden hellscape.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Highly doubt it. So many other browsers on so many platforms (mobile, tv, Auto,...) are built on Chrome and will have this by extension.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (9 children)

And opening most links in Android apps still opens them in Chrome, even if Firefox is your default browser.

Time for Android to get the EU treatment.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

How about the US fixes some of its shit for once? Instead of exporting disgusting practices and forcing others to fix them?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I don't have this issue m Samsung galaxy s9+ on stock Android.

Everything opens in the duckduckgo browser by default. The only time I see Chrome is when it's for when a web site doesn't load in ddg or firefox

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

you might have forgotten to set your browser of choice as the default webview

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm doing this from a Samsung, so the steps might differ slightly, but go into apps, scroll down to Chrome, select it, and then tick the 'Disable' option. Now Chrome literally can't open anything.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

I've disabled chrome on all my devices some time ago, so this is fine.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

idk what people say but webextensions were a mistake.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Does this apply to all Chromium based browsers? I would like to switch to Firefox, but the touchscreen scroll there is terrible, and that is 90% of what I do in a browser.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

yes it does.

what trouble are you having with FF's scroll? it's worked perfectly fine on every device I've ever seen, you sure it's not a problem with your setup?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Early Christmas present for FireFox, yay!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Google keeps improving chrome /s

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