As read from my Mozilla Firefox…

  • tedu@azorius.net
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    5 months ago

    I’m going to go way out on a limb here and guess nothing will happen if I do neither.

    • AlphaAutist@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      5 months ago

      The article says that’s what the government is telling employees since there were several critical vulnerabilities found in chrome. It is very convenient that these vulnerabilities were patched in the same update that manifest v2 is removed though

      • Audalin@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        5 months ago

        CVEs are constantly found in complex software, that’s why security updates are important. If not these, it’d have been other ones a couple of weeks or months later. And government users can’t exactly opt out of security updates, even if they come with feature regressions.

        You also shouldn’t keep using software with known vulnerabilities. You can find a maintained fork of Chromium with continued Manifest V2 support or choose another browser like Firefox.

        • deweydecibel@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          5 months ago

          You also shouldn’t keep using software with known vulnerabilities. You can find a maintained fork of Chromium with continued Manifest V2 support or choose another browser like Firefox.

          It’s disgusting how this exact idea is used to push users away from things they want, and no matter what they claim, you can’t convince me this isn’t part of how they design certain updates. When the customer has no choice but to update, the company has no reason to make the update appealing. They can actively make it all worse and worse and worse, while continuing to scare users into accepting it.

          I’m tired of companies hiding behind “security” to mask anti-consumer shit, and I’m tired of the security community helping them shovel that shit while acting like the consumer is a fool for not wanting to eat it.

          • 0xD@infosec.pubEnglish
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            5 months ago

            Yeah, go read a book or something.You have no idea what you are talking about.

  • thejml@lemm.eeEnglish
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    5 months ago

    I choose to just continue not having it in the first place. I uninstalled it from my work PC a year ago and never put it on either personal install. Definitely haven’t missed it.

    • devilish666@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      5 months ago

      Well it’s me bc my job :

      1. YouTube Revanced for entertainment
      2. MicroG for account for apps that need google dependency for work
      3. Gmail for personal email although nowadays i rarely used it because my client rather used Telegram or WhatsApp
      4. GDrive for backup
      • eodur@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        5 months ago

        I highly recommend looking at something like Proton for 3 and 4. Or backblaze for 4 if it’s truly for backup.

        • devilish666@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          5 months ago

          Thx for recommendations bro
          I already used proton but that’s only for truly personal stuff, a lot of things on my country only support Microsoft mail or google sadly that’s why I’m still using gmail for works, same thing like WhatsApp

          Now i only need recommendations for YouTube apps that can sync playlist from my YouTube (like SpMp music player), bc i hate using YtRevanced patch every time YouTube roll out new apps

    • callmepk@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      5 months ago

      I have to use for work, because all our customer only uses chrome or chrome-based browser :(

    • onion@feddit.deEnglish
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      5 months ago

      Check out https://www.privacyguides.org, they have a bunch of useful info and recommendations.

      Remember, it’s not an all-or-nothing situation, every step you take away from google helps. And you can always reevaluate later, and take time to figure out what works best for you.

  • deweydecibel@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    headlines have focused on the detrimental effect this will have on ad blockers, which will need to adopt a complex workaround to work as now. There is a risk that users reading those headlines might seek to delay updating their browser, to prevent any ad blocker issues; you really shouldn’t go down this road—the security update is critical.

    It’s almost like tying together feature updates with security updates was a deliberate choice by tech companies so that they could tell users shit exactly like this.

    How can there be any real market choices when software literally tells users “for your own safety, you must abandon the things you want, and take the things we give you”.

    • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.caEnglish
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      5 months ago

      When it comes to open source software, market choices aren’t nearly as necessary because new ones can be created at will and very low cost by forking. But in the abstract thech companies are definitely not interested in choices. Choices don’t maximize profits.

    • tedu@azorius.net
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      5 months ago

      We’re all trying to figure out where these headlines came from. The stable channel with all the fixes does not (at this time) bundle the warning. How is that users have become confused and believe the dev channel is the only way to get security fixes?

    • umbrella@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      5 months ago

      its not a false security risk, it really is unsecure to withhold updates.

      the bullshit comes from what they are doing.

  • Luna@lemdro.idEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Meanwhile my school still uses Chrome v109 since that was the last version that supported Windows 8

    • Manzas@lemdro.idEnglish
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      5 months ago

      We still use it in biology ,but not in IT we have windows 10 or 11 on them I always install Firefox on them if it isn’t already there one time some Ukrainian kid set the language .

    • Dark_Dragon@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      5 months ago

      My govt website and other things allow only latest Microsoft edge and Google Chrome. Firefox isn’t allowed it seems.