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Just did a quick look…
Need to use Chrome for work (No, UserAgentString changes don’t work for whatever fingerprinting nonsense they use). Trying to preempt this issue. Apparently when it downloads, it downloads into a folder called
~/.config/google-chrome/Default/OptGuideOnDeviceModel/
OptGuideOnDeviceModel directory doesn’t exist yet.
I created it, made root the owner, and removed all its write permissions. Ought to do it.
No, UserAgentString changes don’t work for whatever fingerprinting nonsense they use
Also block chromium? That’s real crappy.
I mean… it’s enterprise software. That’s the MO for most of it.
Solution: stop using chrome.
Who is still using chrome nowadays? You can’t use ublock
UBOL (uBlock Origin Lite) seems to work pretty well in Chrome still.
Lots of people who aren’t as sensitive as we are to capitalist propaganda (advertising) being constantly flung into our faces 🤮
Ads send me into a fit of rage now. I will sustain a scream at the top of my lungs just to drowned out the audio if I have to. I’m so done.
drown*
Every New Years Eve, I spend about 15 minutes watching network television with my parents while the Times Square ball drops, and I literally ask them every time “how the fuck do you live like this?”
I spend the first 15 minutes of every new year sending texts to all my family and friends in Wisconsin telling them to get registered on myvote.wi.gov for their absentee ballots for the year because we have to renew every single year and its my resolution to bug everyone about it until they send me “i voted” stickers (or excuses for why they haven’t a sticker but have voted) in the spring election which is days from my birthday.
Nobody buys me a gift, they send me pictures of stickers. Civic participation is my requested gift. Spring elections are shit for turnout.
according to this https://radar.cloudflare.com/reports/browser-market-share-2025-q4
65% of people
if you include edge 72% of people
next in line is safari at 16% and firefox just ahead of samsung internet at 3%
Chromium is all I can install GrapheneOS on. Chromium has its uses, pretty sure it’s opensource? And there are privacy friendly chromium browsers like a debloated brave.
I installed graphene without chromium. Not sure what you are doing.
The Lite version still works fine.
That is not really that great
No, but it’s the best option for users who are unable/unwilling to switch browsers.
The best part about chrome is that you don’t have to have it
Unless…
You have to use a website that is absolutely necessary for your job or government paperwork, that only works on chromium browsers (and ungoogled chromium doesn’t help)
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Yeah that
I was just about to be like, “that’s crazy, I’ve never hsd that happen” And then I remember having to do a online test on Chrome instead of Ungoolged Chromium because the anti-cheat extension refused to work…
Renewing my car’s registration in my state won’t even work in Chrome for me. Same goes for Firefox, which I my current preferred browser. I have to use Edge. :|
Although that may be due to the extensions I had running.
None of the browser based COM port uploader tools work on Firefox yet. Like the WLED installer or the ESP32 flash tools.
Firefox has it on beta versions or somesuch
I have no idea what any of that means
I think Yucandu has (custom) hardware (like something based on an esp32 circuit board) that he wants to flash with new firmware, and you generally do that via a com-port (remnant of an old type of connector). Oversimplified: These days com-ports are simulated over usb, and (for now) only chrome-based browsers can actually send the firware over these simulated ports. An example is the flasher for Meshcore devices.
I… Don’t even see why you would want a browser to be able to do that. Seems like really trying to increase browser security issues on purpose.
Why would you ever use chrome? It has always sucked.
Not always, but it really came quickly. I never saw the point in switching from Firefox though. Even if pages actually did load 15% slower, or whatever, it made absolutely no practical difference.
And then what?
…Remove it.
Install Helium browser, Ungoogled Chromium, Firefox or even Brave.
Mmm, Brave is a little sketch IIRC.
It is, Vivaldi is my go-to browser now.
I feel like this sounds easier than it is.
Its really not.
Step 1) Install different browser.
Step 2) Uninstall chrome.
There is no step 3.
It’s actually genuinely that simple.
Most browsers can automatically import from most other browsers.
For example, let’s say you install Firefox. It will give you the option to sync your bookmarks, credentials, saved autofill entries, extensions (if available on Firefox), and even your entire browsing history.
If you switch to a chromium-based browser like Brave, it won’t even have any trouble importing extensions, since unlike Firefox, it’ll support every single chrome-supported extension by default instead of requiring a new Firefox version to also have been made by the developer.
I’ll look into it! Thanks for the follow up
laughs in Brave
Brave doesn’t give a fuck about your privacy.
Some people should be around soon to tell you how terrible Brave is.
