Google Now Bans Some Linux Web Browsers from Their Services

Re:Google Now Bans Some Linux Web Browsers from Their Services by siproprio on Saturday December 14, 2019 @07:53PM (#21793599)

Google is becoming one the worst web companies these days.

Every change they make to their services or platforms make it harder for people to block ads, or make more data go into Google services by default with no way out.

Top of my list:

1. Trying to kill the URL in chrome by eliding information and then forcing advanced users to install an extension that promotes Google services

2. Efforts to gimp advanced ad blockers with manifest V3

3. Changes to Android defaults to make apps enforce not trusting user based https certificates

4. Syncing and signing-in on chrome for Google accounts

5. Enforcing location based, filtered, web search results

6. Pushing non organic, paid, results in all other products except web search

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Re:Google Now Bans Some Linux Web Browsers from Their Services by beagle3 on Monday December 16, 2019 @04:01PM (#21807152)

1, 2 and 4 on your list are through chrome. Switch to Firefox. It is better in almost every respect (specifically, these items you mentioned but also many more) and has been for a while.

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Re:Google Now Bans Some Linux Web Browsers from Their Services by Seirdy on Monday December 16, 2019 @03:00PM (#21806587)

What's truly ironic is the browsers in question use QtWebEngine, which is based on Chromium/Blink. It even says so in the User Agent.

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