Good old google. Allways such a nice company that doesn't use its power in one area to get more power in another.
this post was submitted on 21 Nov 2023
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Does anyone still remember the old, inofficial Google slogan? "Don't be evil"...
don't be google
..yes? It's a massive circlejerk at this point to bring it up and laugh at how google dropped it over 10 years ago.
It was a circle jerk when they introduced it
Really? I remember google was actually respected back then. I don't recall any circlejerking about google that long ago.
Google as whole no, maybe, but that slogan was absolutely mocked from the start. Remember that this was right around when shit like The Matrix, Hackers, etc... were big pillars of the internet. "Don't be evil" inherently sets off alarm bells regardless of anything else.
If that can be proved, this should justify another anti trust investigation against Google.
This is precisely why monopolies or suchquasi-monopolies are terrible for the market and customers.
Wasn't this refuted? The script that people kept spamming was for check for adblock 5sec after loading the content.
Yup it was proven Google didn't do this and it was just an incendiary headline to get clicks. Of course even in the comments of this people are still believing it.
I would counter that there has only been one time in the past when it has been more important to use Firefox than now, that was when IE6 almost ruined the web.
You could actually argue that it is more important now, as Google is actively working to harm the open internet, which MS only did passively with IE6.
I mean, if Google is scared to compete with Mozilla... it must be good? So yes.
Google uses slowdown, its super effective.
Actually, Firefox counters with uBlock Origin and Google's slowdown misses.
Was about to ask which extension can spoof Browser Strings for specific sites.
Good ol' uBlock counters yet again. We gotta protect that extension and all the filter list maintainers.
User Agent Switcher used to do this.
Waaait really? Why am I still using a separate user agent switcher??
That's awesome!
afaik it doesnt spoof the user-agent (which doesnt really hide your browser for more advanced scripts at all), but simply blocks the script responsible for checking.
Because Google apparently cannot afford to do such checks in the backend, same with the Ads, all Client-Side, no wonder we can easily bypass it.
i mean yeah it is the enshitification era of chrome
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Yeah, I used to spoof Chrome a long time for recaptcha's too. Unknown or competition browsers used to often get failed the first try whatever you chose, while spoofing chrome just got the green tag without images. It's become less obvious these days, but I wouldn't be amazed "using" Chrome still gives you more "trust".
~~Why are you posting screenshots from reddit when this was all over Lemmy yesterday?~~
Edit: Am dumbass
Why do you think this is a screenshot of Reddit?
We've finally made it! People look at a picture of Lemmy thinking it's a more popular platform.
Damn, I saw old.reddit.com and haven't thought about it more. You're right.
Lmao try to read next time my guy