Post #2087298

2023-09-08 02:45 UTC

ars technica: we don&#39;t know how they did it but google chrome now extracts a pint of blood every time you log on chrome user, dizzy from blood loss: I swear to god I am like this close to switching to firefox another chrome user, on the verge of fainting from severe blood loss: no need to resort to that, just switch to [insert today&#39;s trendy chrome fork here] and be smart like meeee

Replies (16)

@aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place 2023-09-08 02:52

90% of you are in this picture and I don't like it

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@sumokirby@mastodon.gamedev.place 2023-09-08 03:09

@aeva Don't you know? You can just go to Settings > Privacy > Blood Donations and toggle it off. Until the next update, anyway.

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@KeyJ@mastodon.gamedev.place 2023-09-08 05:57

@aeva I fully get and support your statement, and if a decent(!) Firefox-based browser emerges, I'll be happy to switch. Until then, I'll have to make do with a (comparatively heavily modified) Chromium fork. In fact, that's maybe one of the reasons why Firefox is such a distant second to the Chromium family: It seems to be harder to fork and extend, for whatever technical or legal reasons. I can imagine that some of the Chromium forks out there would rather be Firefox forks if they could.

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@jorgenpt@mastodon.gamedev.place 2023-10-03 03:26

@aeva I was definitely that person when you first posted that. 😅 Finally installed Firefox when I had to reinstall the OS due to a drive failure. 🎉

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@zperk13@mastodon.sdf.org 2023-10-03 06:32

@aeva I'm just waiting for firefox to have captions like chrome, idk how I kept my sanity before that feature was added to chrome

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@pupxel@mastodon.gamedev.place 2024-08-16 12:42

@aeva 90% of firefox's income comes from google paying for the default search selection, with the antitrust stuff going on that is prob going away 😬

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@Hackulaura@infosec.exchange 2024-08-16 15:07

@aeva This was what I needed to switch to see to ditch chrome permanently, thank you. I've been "this close" for literally years

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@somekindofgarf@kind.social 2024-08-16 17:26

@aeva Kicked Chrome to the curb a while back only to get tricked into Brave. Right now running it and Firefox only until Brave can get in the sea when I have time to sit down and find something else that works with my casting setup 🫤

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@authen@akko.eepy.zone 2024-08-17 01:18

@aeva Pint??? A pint of lean??? Well im switchingto chrome.

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@rival@mastodon.social 2024-08-17 10:32

@aeva For many people, I guess, #Chrome is the actual #IE, which in relation to #Firefox, is something like #Windows to #GNU + #Linux: "it's just what came by default"... We need more Firefox (#Fennec for #Android derivatives in #FDroid), and to make Firefox better (in terms of #FLOSS). #Mozilla #FreeSoftware #FreeSociety #AntiCapitalism #Internet #FreeCulture

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@kescher@catcatnya.com 2024-09-07 15:56

@aeva A year after this post, the headline Firefox Now Also Draws Blood Every Time You Log On appears, with the subtitle Only half compared to Chromium

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@xarvos@outerheaven.club 2025-05-14 05:27

@aeva firefox: starts extracts blood from user every time you open it without telling you

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@milo@types.pl 2026-05-06 04:35

@aeva "2yrs ago" OOF LMAO

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@aud@fire.asta.lgbt 2026-05-06 04:37

@aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place Mozilla: "We are PROUD to offer an opt-out local only blood extracter! Your blood, your choice! In combination with our Blood Safe Anti-Blood Blood Harvester, we're like the Luke Skywalker of browsers."

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@rayckeith@techhub.social 2026-05-06 05:09

@aeva This blood extraction analogy is helping me free my wife from chrome! her system is running out of space because of the latest chrome fubar download.

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@ihayes@mastodon.au 2026-05-06 05:29

@aeva I only use Firefox.

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