On July 26th, I blogged about Google’s great idea where they would basicly change the way Chrome works. In the accompanying article, it was reported that the ideas where pretty bad.
It seems as though this community is at least looking. Maybe our work is finally paying off. Here’s one toot posted to Mastodon.
It says:
Kay: Boosting Monique (crazydutchy): Speaking of Chrome, I have rarely ever used it, only if some website on Firefox was not working correctly. Although I agree, we should put pressure on Google if we can, because what they are proposing is pretty bad, likely worse than what twitter ever did. But also please remember, not everyone may have a choice, and although I in favour of making people aware of the situation, telling others what they can or cannot, must or must not do, generally tends to have the opposite result.
Here’s another toot. It says:
Kay: Boosting HIIT it hard af (af): Stop using Chrome as your daily driver.
Google proposed adding DRM to Chrome, which will be used to stop ad blockers, privacy tools, password plugins, accessibility/reader modes.
The only way to stop Google’s Chrome from wrecking the internet like Internet Explorer did for many year to switch to a NOT chromium-based browser as soon as possible for your day to day. You’ve got Safari, and Firefox as your choices.
I know you’ll have to use Chrome sometimes because it’s already happening.
In the linked article that I link to from my blog post, I don’t remember it ever saying that it was going to disable reader mode or accessibility tools.
With this said, I don’t want to say what these posts are saying is true or false, because we really don’t know what Google will do except for what at least one article indicates.
What I will say, is that people should use the browser that works best for their needs. If you’re telling users not to use Chrome, than all chrome browsers including edge should not be used. I don’t want to go that far, based on only one article that came across my desk.
What I’ll ask is this: if someone has an updated article that indicates that Google will break accessibility access to our screen readers and reading tools like the reader mode for articles, I would love to see these so I can see what they say. I don’t see everything, so when I saw these two toots, I starte to wonder.
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As I’ve said, knowledge is power. Let’s share what we know. I believe these toots are doing that, but I am not aware of it. And, I’ve used chrome when needed.So, let’s share those articles so we can all make the best decision possible!