Isn’t one of the point of the phenom of enshifitication that it’s near ubiquitous? The reason it can continue is because it reached a critical mass, leaving us few workable alternatives, like a symptom of monopolization. I’d wager some companies feel like they won’t survive if they don’t keep up, not sure if that assessment is true but I bet many think it is.
Enshitified product exists - > good alternative arises to meet demand - > good alternative becomes popular - > good alternative either becomes enshitified to maximize profits or is purchased by owner of original enshitified product.
The capitalist way.
Get used to it. Nothing lasts forever.
FOSS FOSS FOSS and self-host.
Ah the chaos theory reasoning. There can’t be anything perfect when thinking about it as a whole but you can find sections in a diversified area that are mostly perfect at some point in time but nothing ever lasts.
I’m trying out 3 different browsers atm and I think I’ll just keep all 3 and cycle though or use at different privacy settings. I will miss Firefox and not having to think about my browser. Can’t wait to watch all 3 go to shit as well.
Librewolf seems exactly the same, but it breaks Lemmy for me. It’s probably a setting I didn’t know to turn off.
It’s likely the resist fingerprinting option. It breaks many websites or those that use bot checking thing.
I’ll try some testing around those features.
Don’t hold out on us! Which browsers?
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There are several Firefox forks. Waterfox (based in Europe UK), Librewolf, Zen etc.
I have been loving LibreWolf for a while now. Can really recommend it!
Can you get uBlock and bitwarden on there?
ublocks already added too
Sure you can.
I tried Zen on Arch. Wouldn’t even load pages. I’d avoid it for a while. 🤷♂️
Which would yiu recommend librewolf or waterfox?
Librewolf is definitely better if you are a hardcore privacy nerd. I used it but it broke some sites due to the privacy settings. Waterfox is better than Firefox privacy-wise. Waterfox is in the sweet spot for me. Waterfox has an app but I do not like it because it was very slow compared to the Firefox app. I use Waterfox as desktop browser and Firefox as mobile browser.
Just chiming in to recommend Floorp. Have been using it for a few months now and really like it :D
i switched from firefox to waterfox on my phone and have yet to spot any difference.
i heard some websites might have issues (e.g. web versions of office software) and some settings are missing but in my own everyday use i didn’t run into any of those yet.
use truly foss apps. Anything that’s has a corp built around it is going to enshitify
Self-hosting and FOSS are the way to go. We saw this demonstrated when Raspberry Pi started acting stupidly as a company. There are so many alternatives that it is easy to switch. Unfortunately some things are pretty tough to self-host, like email and anonymizing VPN. But there are a lot of low-hanging fruit that makes it less painful to divest from bad companies.
This thread got removed where it listed all of the things reddit collects, but we shouldn’t get complacent here either. We need to check our instances.
Some of the instances do this here. This is not a 100% haven. It’s great and waaaay better, but still, check into your instances, Lemmies.
I wonder what is going to be Firefox reason to even exist if we already have Chrome and Edge?
PLENTY of reasons if they oppose enshitification… but if they embrace it, then yes, they’ll just be another pimple in the ass of enshitificated software
Fucking look at YOU Gogole… Do no evil my ass! [youwerethechosenone.gif]
It’s a generally recognised principle in economics that we want competition to take place, and for consumers to have a choice - for a plethora of reasons too large to list here. The most important IMO is a political one though: we don’t want monopolies for the same reason we don’t want monarchies and dictatorships. Being the sole provider of any very important product puts an obscene amount of power in the hand of a single corporation (or a handful of them). We never want that much power to be so concentrated in so few individuals, because it’s fundamentally injust, and always leads to catastrophe. Also consider that if that power is a corporation or a “private” individual, they’re not accountable to anyone but their shareholders (who, in turn never want the corp to be anything other than a money making machine). Even a dictator is more accountable to his subjects than a multinational corporation is to anyone. So there you have it, that’s why we need alternatives.
Allows other competitors to exist
Chrome/edge are the same (yes, I know edge is technically better)
If everything only needs to adhere to chromium then chromium can put propriety code that only they are privy to and when web standards are made around it all competition can’t exist
We already have webapps that say they only work on chrome
I’ve been trying the duckduckgo browser, I think I may stick with it. No idea what to do about email
I’ve started migrating from Proton to Mailbox.org. Mailbox supports IMAP, and they have a calendar as well. https://mailbox.org/en/
What happened with Proton?
The proton CEO praised Donald Trump’s choice for who would lead the government’s antitrust division, and now most of Lemmy think they’re a Nazi company or something.
Just typical cancel culture bullshit. Where people choose to be outraged rather than attempting to understand a situation.
They doubled down by leaving federated services in favor of Reddit, which certainly isn’t a great look imo
Yeah I agree it’s been an extreme reaction. Perfect is the enemy of good. Maybe most proton users will be willing to seek out even lesser known alternatives and even self host. But if you’re going to talk to a casual user about getting off of Gmail and then you say “Oh but not Proton” then they’re just going to stick with Gmail.
and even self host.
You have a guide about how to self-host an anonymous VPN?
there’s always tor
Cool cool, lumping “I love fascists, actually” together with “We’re clarifying our legal positions”
So why does a free and ethical software need a user data collection policy that we have to agree to?
Why do they suddenly need to start collecting our data?
I assume because either their legal department, or it sounds like maybe this new exec Varma, thought that the previous language opened them up to potential liability in some jurisdictions.
The brightline for me is when the terms actually become onerous. If you were an extreme privacy nerd you were already using a fork anyway, for the average user there’s nothing in the terms that’s threatening yet IMO.
It’s good to have some variety - after all different things get shitty in different ways.
The meme makes it seem lime there’s some causal relationship though: because we tried to avoid big corp products and dampen enshittification, the alternatives we started to seek are going bad? I don’t think so. The world at large is going to shit in a general stream of shitfulness, but I don’t think we caused that development by trying to evade the shit.
