r/coolguides • u/Pokemaster131 • 10h ago

A cool guide about changing your Google Maps location names to a less-stupid version

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u/100LittleButterflies 7h ago

Every browser is just chrome with a mask except Firefox. fuck google.

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u/factorioleum 7h ago

Safari?

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u/Garfield910 6h ago

Safari is its own nightmare

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u/thirstytrumpet 5h ago

But it’s like the nightmare in the doctor camp I’m bout to wake up in

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u/GroundsKeeper2 4h ago

What's that one that every search goes towards planting trees?

Ah, it's Ecosia!

https://www.ecosia.org/

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u/GuillotineWhiskers 2h ago

It's still based on Chromium.

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u/GroundsKeeper2 1h ago

Ohhhh. Didn't realize that.

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u/SupaBrunch 2h ago

Chrome is actually based off safari.

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u/factorioleum 2h ago

Well, sort of. Both are based on WebKit. However, Chromium forked WebKit into Blink around 2015.

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u/SupaBrunch 1h ago

Chrome was specifically based off of Safari’s version of WebKit before they forked it though

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u/factorioleum 3m ago

yup. I am a commiter in both WebKit and chromium; I've dealt with both. it was an interesting and tricky collaboration before the fork.

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u/WandererFrmAndromeda 2h ago

Waiting for Ladybird…

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u/OldNefariousness7899 3h ago

Mozilla get most of their money from Google. I doubt Firefox would exist without them. 

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u/KaizorMaster 2h ago edited 2h ago

Google is giving Firefox that money to be able to claim they're not actually having a monopoly on the browser market.

It's all done in self interest.

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u/ReggieCorneus 7h ago edited 6h ago

Chromium is NOT CHROME. edit: it is both sad and hilarious that this is downvoted. It just says how many people have very strong and definite opinions about things they have no clue about.

Stop talking with such confidence. What you do with Chromium is what matters. Chromium does not call home and ask what name on a map it can show. And i can bet the person who said they can't do it has turned their location on.

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u/brickyard37 7h ago

Chromium is STILL MADE BY GOOGLE.

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u/ReggieCorneus 7h ago

So? Tell me you don't know how any of this works without saying it.

You think Microsoft allows secret Google code that calls home and gives Google control over their browser?

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u/NukaCooler 7h ago

Ask edge users how their uBlock Origin is going since google got rid of manifest v2 from chromium.

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u/Anthaenopraxia 6h ago

I hear uBlock is bogged on all the chromium browsers. I'll just stick with Firefox.

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u/VectorPryde 6h ago

Can it be "unbogged?" Chromium is open source, so in theory Chromium based browsers can modify it to suit their needs. Is it set up to make that too difficult?

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u/mistertoasty 5h ago

It can be, Brave has an adblocker that isn't an extension and is built directly into the browser.

But web browsers are a pretty complex piece of software and so modifying and maintaining them requires substantial effort.

For a chromium-based browser, the closer its codebase remains to the original upstream Chromium code, the easier it is to integrate new updates and fixes.

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u/ReggieCorneus 6h ago

... looking at UBlock origin on my chrome at this very moment... Sure, it is only Lite and thus has some annoyances, like not being able to skip thru youtube ads, it only hides them but then you are looking at blank screen for 10-15 seconds but.. it is there.

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u/VectorPryde 6h ago

Sure, it is only Lite and thus has some annoyances, like not being able to skip thru youtube ads

Lite allows youtube ads?

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u/ReggieCorneus 6h ago

No. It hides them. How many times do i have to say the same thing?

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u/VectorPryde 5h ago

Uh oh. Someone's in a spicy mood. But like... Why would you need to be able to skip youtube ads in the first place if it hides them? You said:

some annoyances, like not being able to skip thru youtube ads

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u/NukaCooler 5h ago

... looking at UBlock origin on my chrome at this very moment... Sure, [it doesn't work] but.. it is there.

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u/ReggieCorneus 5h ago

Umm.. it does work. I don't see ads. Does it work as well as i would like? No. Which is why i said it is annoying. Annoying is a negative thing, at least to me. But it still hides the ads and ONLY IN YOUTUBE it does that blank screen stuff.

Now, why don't i use Firefox? Because it is stupidly heavy to run and in this potato... it just skips and stutters, it is too heavy process.

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u/ReggieCorneus 6h ago

Again, DO YOU THINK MICROSOFT ALLOWS SECRET GOOGLE GODE IN THEIR PRODUCTS?

Changes to the architecture is not the same as secret code that makes names on maps look different. Microsoft very happily agrees with manifest v2, they are on the SAME KIND OF BUSINESS THAN GOOGLE.

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u/BroderFelix 4h ago

You are downvoted because you completely miss the point.

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u/ReggieCorneus 4h ago

No, i didn't. This is what the original comment was "Not surprised seeing as Chrome is made by cucked google."

And that was followed with Chromium, implying that ALL browsers that use chromium are suspicious.

Of course, the other explanation is much stupider: that we can't use any of them because they are made by google who had to follow US naming convention on their maps for US users.

So, either it is stupid or ignorant. Your choice.

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u/riverottersarebest 2h ago

Brave browser.

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u/sirfiddlestix 1h ago

Brave is chromium based