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Google to court: we’ll change our Apple deal, but please let us keep Chrome (www.theverge.com)

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Google is offering a far more pared-down solution to the court’s ruling that it illegally monopolized search

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Yeah, the enemy of my enemy is not my friend. It's just another asshole.

Google, over the past few years has notably getting worse. Apps that always worked flawlessly lately started getting buggy. YouTube app on Android now crashes near daily, Gmail is suddenly riddled with bugs... It wasn't like this.

Google was a software / tech company that started dabbling in ads to make money. This change toe company to what it is now, an ad company that does a bit of tech on the side.

Google Chrome is now the new ie6 and though it sucks in different ways from ie6, at the core the problem is the same

Google and Microsoft are really the same company, it's just that (for now, still) Google's software sucks less

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Chrome itself is rated 4.1 in Play Store, while Firefox is rated 4.6. Google Chrome dominance, at this point, is a consequence of monopolistic practices and not user preference. They are now using their predominant position in the browser market to apply ad technologies that their users rightly didn't ask for, and they don't like it.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Revanced will fix your youtube on Android problems

Edit:

Link to revanced: https://github.com/ReVanced/revanced-manager/releases

[–] [email protected] 3 points 15 hours ago

Used to use Vanced (not Revanced because it was a while ago), but after switching to Newpipe, I cannot imagine going back. It is just so much lighter and smoother.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Have you tried NewPipe? YouTube changed the API a few times, and it broke for a day. Otherwise, it's excellent. I had trouble with Google Pay lately, which is really frustrating, I reverted to cash. No trouble with Chrome or Gmail on Android.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Google Pay is the most underrated product in terms of privacy. Just think, you're disclosing your financial status and consumer habits to the world's largest advertising company.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

Worst case is that grocery, and restaurant purchases become publicly accessible if it leaks. I use adblockers, so all the targeting is wasted. Privacy concerns are oversold, and exploited by VPN companies and DeleteMe

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

PipePipe another fork of newpipe is my go to