Google Chrome pushes ahead with targeted ads based on your browser history::YMMV, based on where you are

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      10 months ago

      Easier said than done sometimes. Google is already doing what Microsoft used to do. They’re locking G suite features to Chrome, and if your company uses G suite, you made find yourselves in Chrome just so a damn thing works.

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        10 months ago

        My company uses G Suite extensively, and I exclusively use Firefox. I haven’t found a single thing that doesn’t work in Firefox thus far.

        Some lawyer somewhere will wind up with a fat payday if some important feature of Gmail/Sheets/Docs gets locked to Chrome exclusively, as soon as anyone notices.

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          FF is my daily driver (tho I do have to use other browsers for testing and such). G Suite works great for me in FF as well.

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            10 months ago

            They work great for me in chromium based browsers like Arc or Brave

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              10 months ago

              And those are basically Chrome.

              WebKit, Gecko, and other rendering engines don’t always get full compatibility, even if they’re super standards compliant.

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                10 months ago

                They use the chrome rendering engine but they are not chrome. You get the best of both worlds. Compatibility with your corporate g suite whatever with a security/privacy-first mindset (at least with Brave)

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          10 months ago

          Unrelated to G Suite, Google search on mobile should work perfectly fine on Firefox, but Google has decided anyone not using chrome will get a “mobile” version of the site. There’s an addon that fixes that by just changing the user-agent string.

      • 👍Maximum Derek👍@discuss.tchncs.de
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        10 months ago

        I encounter a site that will only work in Chrome based browsers (or at least won’t work in Firefox) about once a month. I’ve yet to encounter one that will only work in Chrome proper.