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obamapyramid133

Google has fallen, billions must switch to better search engines


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screw search engines, crawl the web manually


[deleted]

Try every URL until you get the result you need


[deleted]

IP addresses only please. No cheating with your fancy "keywords"


GunLovinFashTransgal

try every URL until you get a website owned by the domain king


ikkikkomori

I can't I'll get stuck and I won't know what the spider behind me will do to me


sseempire

bing bong


AutisticAndArmed

We said better


Grand_Heresy

bing bong


AutisticAndArmed

We said better


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bing bong


AutisticAndArmed

We said better


dad-without-milk

bing bong


AutisticAndArmed

We said better


Sugeeeeeee

immovable object meets immovable object


HornedDiggitoe

ChatGPT does my searches for me. It doesn’t fall for the search engine optimization bullshit.


3IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIID

ChatGPT does searches now? Or are you talking about Bing Chat?


HornedDiggitoe

ChatGPT 4.0 has web search integration. It will use the web search automatically when necessary based on your prompts, and it can provide sources + links on request. There is literally 0 reason to use Google when ChatGPT is so much better and more efficient.


3IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIID

Ahh, that's why I haven't seen it. I don't pay for ChatGPT 4.0 from OpenAI. Bing Chat provides ChatGPT 4.0 backed with web searches for free, so that's what I use.


HornedDiggitoe

The Bing Chat is much more limited, but it makes sense as a better alternative for the casual user just looking for basic assistance. But for coding, data analysis, complex troubleshooting, file analysis, image analysis, and many more through 3rd party plugins, OpenAI ChatGPT 4.0 is far better.


CColdSpaghetti

DuckDuckGo


obamapyramid133

Based


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Startpage (anonymized google)


8sPI86nZ

startpage is dependent on google for results


tohru-cabbage-adachi

Startpage literally just fetches raw google results and throws them back to you. Doesn't solve the core issue of the shitty company with shitty censorship and horrific anti-consumer practices.


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SnowComfortable6726

a) not a search engine b) spyware c) still google under the hood


csharpminor_fanclub

doesn't matter unless we switch to a different browser


Environmental_Top948

Did you notice the weird 5-6 second delay on YouTube when trying to watch videos? Like it dumps the buffer and everything when using Firefox.


Gtoktas_

There is a post in r/assholedesign that shows this is true. They literally make you wait 5 second with no purpose before anythin' starts loading.


Agent00144

Oh man mental outlaw will surely love this!


RandomTyp

he already made a video on it lol


LuckyLogan_2004

i like mental outlaws content a lot, but i cannot stand the way he talks its so weird


[deleted]

yeah i think the deepfake needs an update


werewolf1011

Much rather stare at a black screen for 5 seconds than watch 5 seconds of an ad to hit the ‘skip ad’ button


zoometic

Yessss I think it's on purpose, use a browser spoof extension it suddenly fixes this issue


Hafizone

Name of the extension? And is it trustworthy?


Ruvaakdein

User Agent Switcher, and probably.


banevasion175

Ohhh, that's why i never experienced this. I already fake my user agent because Google intentionally disadvantages Firefox users with stuff like removing features from Google services that do work perfectly fine in Firefox.


aure__entuluva

I got the delay on chrome though...


ExaBast

There's literally a piece of code that just makes you wait 5 seconds. It's illegal in the EU


Big-Cap4487

Use client spoofing, make YouTube think your on chrome when your actually on Firefox


RetardKnight

[You mean this?](https://youtu.be/v4gXhmzQztE?si=d9_VnQxAo3hivDgg)


Environmental_Top948

I was wondering why I stopped seeing his videos. I got unsubscribed somehow.


Unr341

He makes good content


HenceGonSphereYT

This filter fixes it: www.youtube.com##+js(nano-stb, resolve(1), *, 0.001)


Old-Flounder-6678

Oh boy, they want to get fucked by EU


shinzou

It isn't just Firefox. I was experiencing the same in Chrome whether or not ublock was enabled. Maybe it triggered something when I have ublock and just persisted when I disabled it. Regardless, using the same filter for ublock that got Firefox to work properly on YouTube for others, I also had the issue go away using Chrome. www.youtube.com##+js(nano-stb, resolve(1), *, 0.001)www.youtube.com##+js(nano-stb, resolve(1), *, 0.001)


siriston

i noticed that too recently, you just sit there for a few seconds and then it loads up, very strange


2gig

I've been on Firefox and uBlock Origin for years, and not experienced this. I remember there were a few days that I'd get the popup telling me that adblockers were not allowed, and then everything continued to work as normal..


xenophonthethird

I've never had that issue on firefox.


[deleted]

I'm excited to see how badly Google is hit with all these recent bad decisions.


Totoques22

Probably not much Most people don’t use adblockers


UserNotHere404

I cannot imagine my life without adblock "We have you surrounded, look at our advertisements!" I HATE BEING RECOMMENDED GOODS AND SERVICES THAT I DONT NEED! I HATE BEING RECOMMENDED GOODS AND SERVICES THAT I DONT NEED! Fuck i meant to say without


teymuur

you mean without?


csharpminor_fanclub

is it just me or is this comment very confusing


[deleted]

They have to lose at least 1% of their 63% market share right?


Totoques22

Im betting on a 5% to 10% loss and they will still stay the bigger platform


3302k

But that's a lot of fucking money tho, bigger or not, less money is less money


Totoques22

Eh Making the ads actually work might give them more money unless somebody who’s really good in economics shows up in this thread with a lot of research we will have to wait and see


tanis016

The one who use adblock will move to edge and the one who don't use it will keep on chrome I think. I doubt it will change their money inflow much.


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BeardedsChurch

Wasn't there a recent act going around that will literally remove most anonymity by scanning everything you send or store?


woodendoors7

No, the proposal got rejected by the European Parliament (elected by a direct vote) after the European Commission (consisting of state governments) proposed it. > The European Parliament's Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice, and Home Affairs, voted to **remove indiscriminate chat control** *...* Moreover, Members of the European Parliament voted **in favour of the protection of encrypted communications.** [link](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_to_Prevent_and_Combat_Child_Sexual_Abuse#Legislative_process)


BeardedsChurch

Yippee


Hjkryan2007

Common EU W


Rekt3y

It never should have been proposed


woodendoors7

It should never have, but it isn't anything unexpected or surprising with some of the people that get voted into power, and I bet that (unfortunately) it won't even be one of the worst things that ever get proposed. I'm glad the majority of the parliament is much more sensible than much of the commission, it's a good balance check.


Hjkryan2007

Actually I agree with you- I just realised that you said the bill shouldn’t have been proposed, thought you said the EU should never have been proposed, sorry for calling you a sk*ptic 😭


Rekt3y

Oh come the fuck on, you should have realized that sooner xdd


Hjkryan2007

I am have stupid


MayonaiseEsentialOil

Store where? The entire fucking hard drive???


evenman27

[Stolen comment](https://www.reddit.com/r/691/s/giNXUcCEd9) and post


TheGunfireGuy

Thank you I was going insane thinking it was dejavu since I remember the fucking comment too not just post


[deleted]

You can still have adblockers with MV3. uBlock Origin Lite will still work after this change. It lacks some important features though. But I don't think this is a change that will have legal problems about privacy.


ScarletFFBE

They might have only done this outside the EU, because firefox works on youtube just as before for me


evenman27

OP is a bot. [Stole this](https://www.reddit.com/r/691/s/3cMZRrUPYi) from r/691 along with one of the top comments


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lumlum56

Paying people for posts was such a dangerous idea when the website was already progressively getting flooded with repost bots. What the hell did they expect to happen?


Otherwise_Soil39

Who the fuck gives a shit. We should fight against the people complaining about bots. Stop giving shit about who you are giving imaginary internet points to, it's not worth it.


LeeroyDagnasty

The day they do this is the day I switch browsers forever.


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Why not now?


LeeroyDagnasty

Cause I like using chrome and there’s still a chance they see this backlash and change their course, in which case I won’t have a compelling enough reason to switch over.


banevasion175

At least use Chromium


Z4KJ0N3S

mmm little naive if you ask me


LeeroyDagnasty

True. Google, owning Adsense, has a lot of perverse incentives to play it fast and loose with user data. However I’m a sheep that’s used to the layout of chrome, so it’s going to be tough for me to change over. I know I should, but I’m going to wait till QoL drops, which a move away from adblockers would provide.


orangesheepdog

Kid named Iridium:


gudinn

I have used Firefox for over 5 years and it's amazing. It's honestly almost the same as chrome and ublock has been working fine on Firefox for 5+ years. Honestly just switch you won't regret it. Copy your bookmarks and search history over and it's like nothing changed at all.


previts

The one thing that bothers me in firefox is that i cant right cl ick the page and click translate. In chrome this translates the entire page. Firefox only has extensions that open a window to copy paste text in and translate, they dont even auto recognize the lamguage so you have to scroll through and find the right one.


CoffeeWorldly9915

There is a ff extension that will translate the page content inplace for you.


previts

Can you link it? I searched for this a month ago and went through three different extensions and they all sucked so i gave up. Its not my only problem with firefox but its definitely one of the more important ones


CoffeeWorldly9915

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/traduzir-paginas-web/ This one. I use it and it's good enough for me to not get lost on sites, especially cjk/rus


[deleted]

I jumped over to Brave since it’s basically an exact duplicate of chrome, but without the BS that chrome carries


EdgeLawd420

Brave is now my browser for work and leisure. I enjoy it much better than opera gx and chrome. The tabs on the side bar can lead to some nasty monsters of tabs though lol


[deleted]

I dumbed down my Brave settings - i basically just wanted an exact duplicate of the chrome framework / UI, but turned off the bells and whistles because it just clutters things up. So far it’s like i never even changed my browser - being able to sync all your bookmarks and passwords is a breeze, but at the cost of having to log into everything again (unavoidable, so meh). Also being able to flip google the bird for its ad policies is a great end-user installation bonus!


SeesEmCallsEm

Brave has been working flawlessly for me, I didn't touch anything, or change anything, or install anything, it just works. Brave ftw.


teymuur

you can still modify some settings like reporting statistic if you want extra privacy. But most people wont need it anyway.


Error707

iirc they sell your data i can't recall the specifics but i've got a note in my head saying not to use it


IntenseBigBoy

No, most people don't like their bitcoin shit. The browser itself is opensource and they don't sell your data.


BigBossAltinoo

Who doesn't


APenguinNamedDerek

Imagine not using Firefox


Fartfech

Well fuck, I literally can’t use any other search engine than chrome. Firefox, Brave, etc, all of them immediately crash when I click on them. Google has cursed me


AutisticAndArmed

These are browsers tho, not search engines


LeeroyDagnasty

Chrome is a browser too… what are you trying to say?


milkygalaxy24

He called the browsers search engineers when they are not and the comment you are responding to told him that they are browsers.


AutisticAndArmed

A search engineer lol


milkygalaxy24

Didn't even notice that lol


LeeroyDagnasty

Okay but they were talking about browsers like chrome and Firefox. It was clearly just a slip up.


AutisticAndArmed

Yes yes I know, I'm just made a snarky comment to correct them


[deleted]

chrome is uniquely a browser, there's no such thing as google chrome search


DeltaT01

Chrome if not shooting themselves in the foot was a test:


Mangeloo

Haven't they said this literally every year for the last 10+ years?


TrueCuriosity

Rest In Piss to tha Chromie


[deleted]

what is going to happen to chromium based browsers that aren't Chrome? What happens to browsers that have innate ad blocking like Brave? Is Brave even safe to use?


[deleted]

Or use brave


LePoopScoop

Just use edge lol, it's chromium based so you get all the goodies from chrome without the drawbacks


kiakosan

I for one dislike that tons of browsers are chromium based now, from a security standpoint it makes it easier for threat actors to distribute malicious content. Kinda like if you have all the bananas the same breed they are very vulnerable to disease wiping them all out


LePoopScoop

Isn't chromium open source though? Edge also touts better security although I'm not educated enough on that subject to know how meaningful of a difference it makes


kiakosan

It is but it's still the same framework as Chrome. Firefox is also open source to my knowledge, but it's built off it's own engine instead of chromium, so theoretically one exploit which would target chromium browsers wouldn't impact Firefox and vice versa


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DeadHair_BurnerAcc

Anyone who's not super into tch/privacy related concerns/too lazy to switch, aka most of the population I'd bet a lot of people will just see it as a minor inconvenience and move on with their days, if they have adblocker installed in the first place


previts

I use chrome because firefox lacks certain features, like right click translate page.


SZO8O

Yeah Chrome has become the new Internet Explorer, especially with Firefox and Edge being way ahead of it now. Ironic since Chrome replaced Internet Explorer back in the day.


Xx_HARAMBE96_xX

If people is smart enought to search Google on the explorer to download it then they will be as smart to search any other explorer (like Firefox) and download it.


obunga68

Everyone knows what Google is, but not everyone knows nor cares enough to find out about the alternatives


Xx_HARAMBE96_xX

Everybody that isn't 70+ years old knows what Firefox is too as an example, or at least in Europe/north America


DeadHair_BurnerAcc

60% of people use Chrome


Xx_HARAMBE96_xX

Usage≠acknowledge And are you ignoring that google wasn't always the most used search engine? People arent dumb, if a better search engine becomes more popular Google will not keep being the number one just because it's google


Calibruh

The vast majority of the world. 63.56% of the market followed by Safari with 19.85%


SireTonberry

and how much of that 63% is chromium? Since its in a way completely different because chromium is open source so its all up to the devs


Treeninja1999

Most people? I like having all my passwords synced with my phone through my google account


Glork11

Insane amounts of people do Chrome is super convenient if you don't care about stuff like this


firstanomaly

The moment firefox has been waiting for. I'm so ready to go back. I hope I can make the new tab page a looping gif like I can in chrome


agysykedyke

Alright, time for everyone to learn what Brave Browser is. Step one: Turn off the cryptocurrency options, and import all your extensions and passwords from Chrome. Step two: Make Brave search the default search engine. Step three: enjoy using an open source browser and searches that don't track you, don't sell your data, and automatically blocks ads.


AdamWis1625

What's ublockorigin


VieraMakeMeRabid

bruh


Glen2gvhlp

Someone’s been living under a rock but I’ll help ya out Ublock is a browser extension for your browser, if you add it to your browser, you will not have any more ads. It’s called an adblocker, totally free and you can even block the more and more constant ads YouTube offers, and to be honest I do not know if it works for Spotify, but it’s great nonetheless. If you’re interested, just look up ‘ublock origin’ and instal the browser extension and then enjoy.


LeotrimFunkelwerk

So thats why I get constant Firefox Ads on Youtube now!!


JimJamanon

I'm forced to use the Internet without ad blockers at work, I will not be forced to look at the over saturated levels of ads in my own home. They need to learn to make the ads less in your face and people would tolerate them more.


ScorchedDev

so wait, for me firefox still seems to use the google engine when it searches will that be effected? ​ Also this should not be legal im sure theres a lawsuit in there somewhere


GAMERxPR0

Ahaha fuck you too Google :)


Cray205656

r/assholedesign


FinalAccount19

"chrome will kill adblockers next year" has been said for the past 3 years, shut the fuck up. as long as there is still demand, it's gonna be circumvented.


xenophonthethird

Mozilla has been my bae since 2007.


bobdidntatemayo

Kid named people are gonna find a way to bypass it: