Re:Lets Get Arrested (2019)
by Brian_K_White on Monday February 14, 2022 @06:16PM
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Unfounded assumption.
My own primary reasons for using FF are 2 things:
1 - Use anything other than chromium simply to combat monoculture and preserve some possibility for things that Google and MS or other superpowers may not like and so won't be allowed in Chrome or Edge.
2 - For instance, actually functional, useful, powerful and and user-holds-the-power plugins, like ad-blockers that actually work and don't have un-closable whitelists for paying customers, page editors that can block or modify other things besides just ads like any sort of annoying thing like auto playing videos or chat popups etc. Url-cleaners that strip off all the tracking redirects in search result links and links in facebook comments etc.
Some of this kind of stuff is still possible in chrome/edge at least on the desktop, but only because there still is at least some small competition to compare to, and it gets a little worse every day, never better. Meanwhile I have at least some of this even on mobile. Some things if I can't get it in the normal FF, I can get them in whole other special purpose browsers, which couldn't be done with any browser at all on ios.
Much of this is core browser engine function, not just the visual style of the buttons.
My own primary reasons for using FF are 2 things:
1 - Use anything other than chromium simply to combat monoculture and preserve some possibility for things that Google and MS or other superpowers may not like and so won't be allowed in Chrome or Edge.
2 - For instance, actually functional, useful, powerful and and user-holds-the-power plugins, like ad-blockers that actually work and don't have un-closable whitelists for paying customers, page editors that can block or modify other things besides just ads like any sort of annoying thing like auto playing videos or chat popups etc. Url-cleaners that strip off all the tracking redirects in search result links and links in facebook comments etc.
Some of this kind of stuff is still possible in chrome/edge at least on the desktop, but only because there still is at least some small competition to compare to, and it gets a little worse every day, never better. Meanwhile I have at least some of this even on mobile. Some things if I can't get it in the normal FF, I can get them in whole other special purpose browsers, which couldn't be done with any browser at all on ios.
Much of this is core browser engine function, not just the visual style of the buttons.