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The only time I see websites break on Firefox is due to Firefox blocking their tracking script and somehow the website doesn't work because of it. In those case, it's not the browser's fault that the website doesn't work without the tracking scripts.

Other people mentioned Google Meet doesn't support background blur in Firefox. Firefox is actually capable to do that in the past few months, but you'll need to spoof your user agent to chrome, so it's not Firefox fault.

I got curious and started looking into this. Looks like you can enable background blur in google meet if you're using the latest version of firefox, I just did myself to confirm.

All I need to do is by spoofing the user agent in about:config, by setting general.useragent.override to Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/112.0.0.0 Safari/537.36.

If I remove the user agent spoofing, google meet refuses to show the background effect options.

So my conclusion is google deliberately gate this feature behind user agent sniffing. Firefox is perfectly capable of supporting this feature.

Some discussion about the issue: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1703668

"I've got nothing to hide" is not a good enough reason to give up privacy. "Watch out for terrorists" is not a good enough reason either. These days, "Think about our children" seems to be the argument of choice to encourage people to voluntarily give up their privacy.

It's not that simple. Google is now a major driving force in the web standard consortium. Forking Blink doesn't stop Google from pushing more and more ridiculous web standard. The only way to stop it is by reducing chromium market share which will also reduce Google influence in the consortium.

This browser monoculture stuff will surely bite our asses someday. I just hope Firefox (and its derivatives) would still exist to take chromium refugees when Google show its true color in the future.

I do all my personal browsing on Firefox now. I'm still using chrome, but strictly for work stuff. It's nice to keep those activities separate, especially since many apps I use for work still discriminate against Firefox.

Google products only supporting chromium is a tale as old as time. Try using this extension to enable background blur and see if it'll work: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/mercator-studio/

Edit: Looks like background blur is working on the latest version of Firefox if you spoof your user agent to chrome. See my comment below.

Don't use AdBlock Plus of you can. Use ublock origin instead.

I'm sure those enterprising game devs on steam will publish a whole bunch of hentai games that works with the suit as soon as the suit released.

I don't think you'll miss anything. If pihole works for you, then there is no need to switch to adguard.

One thing I found helpful is configuring my router (asuswrt-merlin) to transparently route all dns request to my adguard instance. You might already heard that some apps and IoT devices tried to be clever and hard-coded their dns server so they can evade dns blocking (I'm looking at you Netflix). If your router support redirecting all dns request to a custom dns server, definitely use it!

I noticed certain communities in lemmy can rival (or even more active than) their reddit counterparts. Maybe not much contents yet, but their users are very active and answer questions quickly. I'm sure other communities will also grow overtime.

Sounds great! By the way, if you're using docker, be careful not to accidentally have a container open a port on all interface. Even if you have a firewall configured on the machine, sometimes docker can punch a hole without you knowing. Might be a good idea to run a port scan from an external computer from time to time just to makes sure no unwanted open ports.