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I thought this would convince my brother to degoogle. Guess what he said?
“scoff I ain’t a gigabite hoarder, let them have my 4 gigas.”
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)
Yeah that
I was just about to be like, “that’s crazy, I’ve never hsd that happen” And then I remember having to do a online test on Chrome instead of Ungoolged Chromium because the anti-cheat extension refused to work…
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Renewing my car’s registration in my state won’t even work in Chrome for me. Same goes for Firefox, which I my current preferred browser. I have to use Edge. :|
Although that may be due to the extensions I had running.
None of the browser based COM port uploader tools work on Firefox yet. Like the WLED installer or the ESP32 flash tools.
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.
Because it’s easy and convenient. I have esptool installed and I still usually flash via the browser.
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?
Firefox has it on beta versions or somesuch
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.
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.
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.
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.
It’s actually genuinely that simple.
Most browsers can automatically import from most other browsers.
For example, let’s say you install Firefox. It will give you the option to sync your bookmarks, credentials, saved autofill entries, extensions (if available on Firefox), and even your entire browsing history.
If you switch to a chromium-based browser like Brave, it won’t even have any trouble importing extensions, since unlike Firefox, it’ll support every single chrome-supported extension by default instead of requiring a new Firefox version to also have been made by the developer.
I’ll look into it! Thanks for the follow up
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
laughs in Brave
Some people should be around soon to tell you how terrible Brave is.
Brave doesn’t give a fuck about your privacy.
