Greetings! I have recently ditched google and went with privacy focused alternatives. Such as SearXNG, Invidious, Lemmy etc.

However, while i was using degoogled chromium, i cant install extensions.

Is there any way i can install extensions on Degoogled Chromium? (ik this isnt the right place to ask but eh)

Thanks a lot!

  • GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml
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    2 年前

    I don’t remember many details so you have to wait for more competent replies but afaik there are 2 ways of getting extensions working on UGC: download the extension file using some workarounds and install it manually, or install a special proprietary module that enables Chrome extension store so you can use it like on Chrome.

  • PrivacyDingus@lemmy.ml
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    2 年前

    Agree with a lot of the comments here, whether it’s privacy or not wanting to use GAFAMmmy tools, there are better options than ungoogled chromium. For privacy: https://privacytests.org/ (maintainer works at Brave, but by and large this site is useful)

  • Wave@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    2 年前

    If I were you and needed to use a chromium based browser, I would go for brave with maximum privacy settings turned on and all the Crypto shit and brave “features” turned off. Ungoogled chromium is a good project but its not as refined as Brave is. See here: https://privacytests.org/

    If I were you I’d go for Librewolf or Mullvad browser if you dont need Chromium. The reason people say this is because Google has a sort of monopoly on the browser space right now as Chromium takes up Almost 80% of the marketshare, meaning that Google will ultimately get to decide what features live, and what features die. If Chromium market share was down at 40% or so, it wouldnt matter if you used Brave or not, but thats the reality we live in.

          • Yurgenst@sh.itjust.works
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            2 年前

            Pro tip: when a website doesn’t work with Firefox, go download a user agent changer and switch it to chrome and watch the website work perfectly on Firefox lol

            • Maeve@kbin.earth
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              2 年前

              Oh? Recommendations? I just said I’m waiting to get to the library to bid on a couple of municipal projects bc of this “must use chrome” nonsense.

              • Yurgenst@sh.itjust.works
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                2 年前

                User-agent switcher is what I use. My only issue so far is that it messes up websites that use recaptcha or cloudflare “Are you a robot” challenges sometimes.

          • Cris16228@lemmy.today
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            2 年前

            Yeaaah i fking hate it “Please install google chrome to use this feature” nah, Imma skip it entirely

            • Maeve@kbin.earth
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              2 年前

              I was trying to bid on a couple of municipal projects recently, and got this. Nope. I’ll go to the library, maybe.

              • Cris16228@lemmy.today
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                2 年前

                I’m really curious if it’s real or some bullshit. Do chromium based browser have something Firefox doesn’t? I’m talking about all those “Please install Firefox to use X” because I doubt it

                • Rekorse@sh.itjust.works
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                  2 年前

                  They have tracking and zero privacy. Some websites wouldnt be profitable or worth it if they couldn’t collect and sell data.

                  Google is a data broker.

          • N0x0n@lemmy.ml
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            2 年前

            Wait… You have encountered a website that doesn’t work on Firefox? :/ Like finding a needle in haystack.

            • naught@sh.itjust.works
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              2 年前

              This is more common than you think. It’s usually not broken entirely, but firefox constantly breaks styling/css stuff on websites I use and build. I’ve had a few sites ask me to switch browsers because firefox doesn’t support x y or z feature too

              • CrypticCoffee@lemmy.mlM
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                2 年前

                Never noticed an issue and if websites using only chrome supported features, it’s an issue with the website, not the browser.

                • naught@sh.itjust.works
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                  2 年前

                  That’s one way to look at it. If a website works perfectly on chromium, but not firefox, why is this the website’s fault?

              • N0x0n@lemmy.ml
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                2 年前

                This must be very specific and probably heavly bloated with unecessary stuff? (With probably alot of telemetry and other strange things…)

                I have never encountered any breaking of styling/css, except with some specific addons (no-script, heavy dns blocking, ublock in hard mode…)

                Not that I doub your claims, but if you have any example on hand I would be very open to give it a try and maybe learn something new in the web realm.

                • naught@sh.itjust.works
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                  2 年前

                  I remember trying to style a range input slider a few years ago and it worked everywhere except firefox. I also had problems with the style of the <select> recently (inverted colors, wrong font). Not a big deal, I still drive firefox daily, but there are idiosyncrasies

            • bjorney@lemmy.ca
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              2 年前

              It’s not uncommon to see certain sites to only work on chromium because the dev used the filesystem APIs that don’t exist on FF

  • pewpew@feddit.it
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    2 年前

    Manifest V2 exstensions (like most ad blockers) are no longer supported. You should install Firefox or a fork of it (I reccomend Floorp)