Who is still using chrome nowadays? You can’t use ublock
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.
Im watching YouTube with chromecast sometimes and its constant ads that just comes more and more often the more you watch a video. The entire service screams it wants me to stop watching. And I do, normally i just watch one or two videos and then the ads are too much. I get angry by the interruptions.
On ads i turn the volume down to zero and intentionally stare at the counter so I dont even know what ad they are playing. I hate them.
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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.
My psych’s telehealth only works in chrome so I only use it for that. All the more reason to nuke this AI bullshit
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%
UBOL (uBlock Origin Lite) seems to work pretty well in Chrome still.
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.
Settings->System->On Device AI to Off stops it from coming back.
sudo apt purge chrome and get a better browser for yourself, you deserve it.
Solution: stop using chrome.
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.
You need to change the client hints as well.
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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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.
Neither did I, but they all started offering, so I started using those tools. Especially the all-in-one systems where it’s like “just buy the hardware, go to this website, and it’ll flash for you”. Like that’s more secure than “go to this website and download and run this weird exe” isn’t it?
Because it’s easy and convenient. I have esptool installed and I still usually flash via the browser.
Anybody know if this only gets installed on windows 11 computers? At work we got low resources on windows 10 and legacy computers so idk if they install the AI weights on those
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.
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.
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.
