More people finding out every day that big tech is your enemy and should be treated as such.
this post was submitted on 28 Jun 2023
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I actually deleted my google account yesterday. Felt so good. I'm finally free.
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Ublock origin is a life changer. 😅
I found I was only able to register, and login, after I used Firefox (and verified my email to login). Glad I checked here to see it was more Chrome related.
Not really. It just has to keep a separate database for the cookies and local storage (or just an extra column?) not sure how it works underneath the hood, but there's no noticeable performance impact.
and this is not just you using a billion blocklists?
Using all those blocklists is still a whole lot faster than the increased load times from loading ads.
I use both Firefox and Opera (Opera One & Opera GX)
I use Opera is because of its AI, Aria. and I like it. unlike Bing AI ofc......
Can’t possibly slow it down anymore than it has been