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It already is on mine, no trace of chromium or it's forks.

Linux Phones and Degoogled Phones surge in response.

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backup has arrived

If Google presented me with ads for things I might be interested in and in a non-invasive way, wouldn’t mind looking at them at all.

Instead I get ads for the seemingly random shit I have absolutely zero interest in buying. How they are consistently wrong about my spending habits is unbelievable. I have two fucking hobbies! I don’t see ads for anything relating to them. Ever.

You're correct, and now people will boycott Chrome. Firefox and Brave are good / accessible / easy to get for most people so...

The more people use Firefox, the more web devs will be forced to ensure their website works on Firefox.

I'm showing my age, but back when IE was basically the only browser and Firefox (Firebird back then) launched, people often lamented that things didn't work in Firefox. The solution? People used Firefox and web developers were forced to make their shit work in Firefox. When Chrome came out, suddenly we had three real options and the way to make everything work? Open Standards.

Now, Chrome is in the position IE was back before Firefox came around. How ever will we make sure things work in Firefox??? Use Firefox. If enough people dump Google's malware browser, the web has to go back to supporting multiple browsers through open standards.

Have you reported issues for them? It's in the menu somewhere. If Mozilla get a lot of reports for particular sites, they reach out to the webmaster and try to work with them to improve Firefox support - usually by removing proprietary Chrome-only features or by removing reliance on Chrome bugs that don't exist in Firefox.

You can also report the issue at https://webcompat.com/, just search to see if it's already been reported first.

I don't know how long the forks will be able to backport new features to their forked codebase.

I think the only sensible solution is to just switch to Firefox.

Even with an ad blocker, it gets more unusable every year that goes by

Ladybird looks great! Very much looking forward to an alpha linux release so I can use it and give all kind of feedback.

Saying this about any corporation's product is guaranteed not to age well.

Frankly, at this point I might even be more attached to blocking ads than browsing.

An ecom site decides to block 5% of web traffic and potential sales?

Now tell the marketing team you are turning away 1 in 20 potential customers because (well, not really sure why) and see what they have to say.

There's already plenty of business web apps that require chrome. I specifically use a business focused web app that not only requires Chrome, but ONLY CHROME ITSELF and no chromium derivatives. That's the first time I've come across that. I had previously seen chrome requirements, but they worked just fine on ungoogled chromium. Not this one, nope. Regular Google Chrome and nothing else. wtf is that garbage.