• onepinksheep@kbin.social
    4·
    1 year ago

    The misuse of this meme is one of my biggest meme pet peeves. Have people forgotten that in that scene, his vision is clear when he’s not wearing glasses? So the meme should be the other way around.

    • Synapse@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 year ago

      Like many memes, this one exists outside of the original oeuvre (movie, painting, etc). For instance, I have not see the movie it comes from, it wouldn’t makes sense to me if it was the other way around.

  • GenBlob@lemmy.world
    2·
    1 year ago

    Nothing is worse than seeing chromium-based browser users fight other chromium-based browser users. You are all using the same fucking thing!

  • danielton@lemmy.world
    1·
    1 year ago

    Honestly, my biggest fear if Apple ever allows other browser engines on iOS is that developers will stop testing on anything other than Chrome. And they will tell iPhone users to “just download Chrome.”

    I’ve already heard so many places tell people not to use Firefox or Safari to access their website. It’s IE 6 all over again. I hate Chrome and refuse to use it.

      • danielton@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 year ago

        I hate how everybody seems to be OK with this because Chromium is nominally open-source, when that ended up being the whole reason we are in this mess.

        • Laxaria@lemmy.world
          1·
          1 year ago

          Being “open source” seems to be lead people to think it is altruistic or good for the community as a whole.

          Being open source is really just a categorization. A fully for profit organization can make something valuable open source and then leverage that for commercial reasons (like building highly monetized additional code on top).

          It is in Google’s best interests for Chromium to dominate the web even if it is open source due to Chrome’s broad reach and Google’s heavy leverage of the web for revenue, like its ad services.

          It is shortsighted to see what is happening and then go “well I don’t see a problem”.

    • thehatfox@kbin.social
      0·
      1 year ago

      Yes, it’s a sad state of affairs that Apple’s restrictions on iOS and iPadOS browsers are the only thing stopping an effective Google monopoly over web browsers. Ideally Firefox would still keep things in balance, but Mozilla doesn’t seem to know what it’s doing these days in terms of building market share - and I say that as a long time Firefox user.

      I still remember the IE 6 era, and I hope we never see a single browser dominate the web again. To those wishing Apple would be forced to open up, be careful what you wish for.

  • R0cket_M00se@lemmy.world
    1·
    1 year ago

    God damn I thought I saw the last of these stupid browser takes on reddit, chromium is open source and we’ve seen multiple browsers (Brave, Vivaldi, I think librewolf) using its potential to remove themselves from the chromium baseline and build out their own fork with ad blocking services that didn’t go down when manifest V3 happened.

    There’s no “browser monopoly” anymore than there’s a “V shaped engine” monopoly in cars. Why don’t people use Gecko more? That’s like asking why people don’t use rotary piston engines in cars, you could, it’s just garbage. Gecko isn’t the standard because no one wants to build a web browser with it.

    • balance_sheet@lemmy.world
      0·
      1 year ago

      Librewolf is hardened Firefox not Chromium. If you really care about privacy there’s no option but to go Firefox/Librewolf.

      I use Librewolf on PC and Fennec on my Androids. Both fron Gecko engine. Ungoogled Chromium still depends on google web services not to mention just shitty to use. Chromium is (de facto) standard not because it’s inarguably good. It’s because Chrome has been defacto standard web browser since 2010 because IE was an utter trash and Chrome suddenly appeared and won over it.

      Firefox couldn’t win that war because it wasn’t a new kid and all people could remember was it not working properly with websites that are designed for IE, even after websites moved to web standards, which was the reason Chrome was working properly.

      I don’t care if Chromium is slightly faster or it supports newer web standards hairthin ahead. I hate Chrome and Chromium and love Firefox.

      • R0cket_M00se@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 year ago

        not to mention just shitty to use.

        Come back to me when Firefox has workspaces, tab stacking, a side panel, and the rest of the aesthetic customization of Vivaldi.

        You’re a fanboy, clearly, but you haven’t actually argued why Firefox is better, just that you like it more because you’re seething at chromium.

        Firefox lost because it used to be shitty and everyone just assumed it still is, whoops. Better luck next time. When Vivaldi stops blocking ads natively without an installed ad blocker (still haven’t noticed any YouTube ads post V3) I’ll consider switching. Until then, this “bUt cHrOmiUm” shit is just a joke.

        • donnachaidh@lemmy.world
          0·
          1 year ago

          None of that is chromium. Vivaldi could have built that on top of Firefox, but didn’t. As to why Firefox is better, the very fact that it’s an alternative that is keeping up technically is a benefit. It’s less a ‘V-shaped engine’ monopoly and moreso a ‘V8 engine made by a specific company’ monopoly. They have far too much control over the direction of web standards. Much of what they are doing is actually good, but it should then be spread based on merit, rather than because they directly control almost the entire market.

        • balance_sheet@lemmy.world
          11·
          1 year ago

          I can use just the same logic with Firefox too. Workspace is in firefox as Container. Actually it’s been forever. Self hostable sync? The idea of logging in to an account to a company in a browser nonetheless is horrifying. Vivaldi talks about how great their privacy feature is but their default Adblock on Vivaldi is no match to ubo so no real benefit when I’m just going to have to install ubo atop. Oh and default enabled Google services? No thanks.

          Bringing Vivaldi or basically any other browser is kinda missing the point. Someone can make the very same features happen with Gecko. I’m mostly concerned with privacy which I think I made clear which is the reason I don’t get why you try to point out the clear fact that I’m a fanboy. I am. To be clear, I hate Google. I use Duckduckgo to search, Nextcloud for drive, Piped for youtube frontend and so on. I try to avoid Google and other unnessesary privacy concerning things as much as I can.

  • codenul@lemmy.ml
    1·
    1 year ago

    Recently switched over to mull browser. Fork of the Firefox browser, works great so far. Also if you are unsure of the security of your browser, could use the website, browseraudit.com, that rates your current browsers. Runs 100+ against several tests and reports back.

  • JSens1998@lemmy.ml
    1·
    1 year ago

    Yeah, ain’t this the truth. Firefox and safari are the only browsers that arent chromium based. We must protect Firefox at all coats! Without it, Google would have a monopoly on the browser space… a world I would not like to live in.