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It is essential to stop using Chrome. Under the pretense of saving users from third-party spyware, Google is creating an ecosystem in which Chrome itself is the spyware. (mastodon.world)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 42 points 2 years ago (2 children)

What you're describing sounds more like over-reliance on Google services than the browser. I don't use gmail or google logins anywhere, I just have Bitwarder plugin to manage my authentication and use masked emails to create accounts. I did the same in all the different browsers I used over the years and never had any issues with it or with switching between browsers.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    You're right, but that's still a valid concern. Many people are much more ingrained in the Google ecosystem, especially through Android.

    We're seeing this issue with Microsoft in the buisness space, too.

    And if course we've been seeing it with Apple for decades.

    These massive corporations have a great deal of people so ingrained in their interconnected services, it's next to impossible to convince them to extract themselves.

    This is why the EU regulations focus on "gatekeepers". Because users will not make the necessary changes in their habits to combat the abhorrent practices in the industry. There is no true free market here. So the solution is to regulate the shit out of these gatekeepers to make them open up and play fair.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    IMHO unfortunately most people will always go for what's more convenient, don't care about their privacy and don't mind ads and there's not much we can do about it. Eventually all the content on the web will be locked up behind a paywall and/or accompanied by nu-blockable ads. Most users won't mind that. We'll be left with what we can host/support ourselves like lemmy or mastodon.

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