Google ramps up its campaign against ad blockers on Chrome.
  • maegul (he/they)English
    300•3 months ago

    So … can we like finally dismiss Google Chrome as the obviously awful idea it is and which should never have made it this far and remind all of the web devs married to it that they’re doing bad things and are the reason why we can’t have nice things?

    Hmmm … a web browser owned by a monopolistic advertising company … how could that possibly go wrong!!!

    XKCD Comic depicting a conversation between someone who send an essay in dot doc, MS Word format, and another trying to convince them to use open source alternatives. The first person is abusively unconvinced, doesn't care about ensuring we have good software infrastructure and dismisses the open source advocate as smug and "probably autistic". In the final pane, the first person runs to the open-source-advocate second person panicking about facebook taking over everyone's social lives and doing evil things with it, in response to which the second person simply plays their "world's tiniest open source violin" as a clear "i told you so gesture"

    • @EyronEnglish
      40•3 months ago

      Do you remember the Internet Explorer days? This, unfortunately, is still much better.

      Pretty good reason to switch the Firefox, now. Nearly everything will work, unlike the Internet Explorer days.

      • Firefox User