Reddit CEO Digs In Heels As User Outrage Engulfs Website
Reddit CEO Digs In Heels As User Outrage Engulfs Website
Thousands of subreddits chose to go dark in an ongoing protest over the company's plan to start charging certain third-party developers to access the site’s data.
Wow. Front page of huffpost.com right now. Interesting...
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protest isn't really a big deal.
The big deal comes when people work to do the same thing on other platforms.
- Then we'll find out what Reddit is really good for.
Oh, and Quora, and Google, and Meta, and Twitter.
Remember, do it in Firefox - not Chrome.
Yeah, agreed, down with Chromium!
- sent from Vivaldi
....wait
(Vivaldi user here too!)
Wait - how come in Firefox, and not Chrome? (I say this as someone who primarily works using Chrome, as my workplace operates in the ice age and half the time Firefox acts stupid)
he's referring to the fact that almost all browsers use chrome's rendering engine and google is abusing its position of leadership by making unnecessary api changes that make adblocking extensions all but impossible to implement.
if you want to still be able to block ads on the web in the years to come, switch to a non-chrome web browser to limit google's power and ability to abuse its position.
i think as of now, they have delayed the sabotage, but it's coming.
what are some non-google based browsers?
Depending on the operating system this could be Safari on OSX, Firefox, Brave on basically anything, Opera, if it still exists, Konqueror on Linux (fun fact: I think most current browser engines spawned from that), or lynx if you're hardcore
Brave is Chromium based
Isn't it an independent fork?
It's based on Chromium https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/blob/master/README.md
This repository holds the build tools needed to build the Brave desktop browser for macOS, Windows, and Linux. In particular, it fetches and syncs code from the projects defined in package.json and src/brave/DEPS:
- Chromium
- […]
- brave-core
- Maintains patches for 3rd party Chromium code.
- Chromium
Opera still exists but it's based on chromium now.
Not entirely sure what the commenter was referring to, but it might be about tracking (Firefox has great anti-tracking and privacy tech). The real money on the web comes from ads, and specifically targeted ads. Targeted ads require that advertisement companies like Facebook and Google track you and build a profile based on your activity. Companies like reddit make money by helping to build these profiles and by delivering ads.
If you can still be targeted by ads, the powers that be will continue to try and "make a buck" off the internet. If there is a market for targeted ads, it is likely that a service will be monetized for the sake of profit, which typically leads to situations like what we've seen with reddit, Twitter, Facebook, etc... Privacy is essentially an ad-business killer in the modern web.
Usually you can install/update Firefox (see Portable firefox)
Chrome is proprietary software, so nobody can verify what it really does on your computer. Google also wants to kill adblockers.
I remember jumping from Firefox to Chrome because Firefox became so shitty for a while. It's sad because at the time I had Firefox so tuned, bookmarks perfect, theme perfect, but it was slow and ate up all resources. Chrome was "fast as fuck, boy!", but it took a while to get used to it and get it how it was perfect. I'm still trying to get Firefox to where it's perfect again, but it's slow going. I'm still about 75% Chrome and 25% Firefox.
What's up with the headline formatting?