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2025-04-11 19:52:54

bremner@mathstodon.xyz

Them: "UBlock Origin: this extension was turned off. Chromium recommends that you remove it."

Me: OK, I guess I trust google to give me good advice:

$ sudo apt remove chromium

2025-04-11 20:19:35

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

@David Bremner Don't forget "--purge" 😉

2025-04-11 20:59:20

jak from far away

sean@chaos.social

@bremner made my day

2025-04-11 21:00:07

me·ta·phil, der

metaphil@chaos.social

@bremner very apt use of apt to remove an APT 😉

2025-04-11 21:38:27

Ryek Darkener

_RyekDarkener_@mastodon.social

@bremner

Looks like a choice based on digital competence.

2025-04-11 22:06:43

elMau

elmau@cuates.casa

@bremner 👍😀

2025-04-11 22:09:54

Simon Dückert

sdueckert@chaos.social

@bremner what do you install instead?

2025-04-11 23:49:53

Profoundly Nerdy

profoundlynerdy@bitbang.social

@bremner Firefox and Librewolf are your friends.

2025-04-12 00:01:56

Dianora (Diane Bruce)

Dianora@ottawa.place

@bremner and you just reminded me
pkg delete chromium

2025-04-12 00:29:14

Elias

eliasr@social.librem.one

@bremner

> sudo apt remove chromium

In this case I'd recommend "apt purge" from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

2025-04-12 01:21:12

Number6 :syncthing:

number6@fosstodon.org

@bremner

And then what?

Firefox is essentially owned and paid for by Google. They already have their own manifest 3 in the works. They will ultimately do whatever Google wants.

Most of the forks are poorly supported. Remember that the Pale Moon archive was actually infected with a trojan? That sort of thing doesn't happen at big companies that have someone in charge of verifying security.