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If you value privacy, ditch Chrome and switch to Firefox now (www.fastcompany.com)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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With the number of people concerned about privacy, it is a wonder why chrome is even popular.

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[–] 28 points 3 years ago (2 children)

Most people aren’t concerned about privacy outside of places like here and Reddit.

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  • [–] 17 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    With Chrome killing ad blocking, they'll quickly care

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  • [–] 22 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    Except most people don't use adblock. I don't even know how they live

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  • [+] 8 points 3 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    You are mostly right. Think about how many people use chrome on corporate office computers that they do not have permission to install anything on or modify. It's part of the reason Windows is so dominant. Businesses run windows and chrome a shit ton. I work for a Fortune 100 company. It's Windows and Chrome across the whole company.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    I work for a large company and its the same. They even force-install Chrome despite Edge already being there! Yes, some people will make the privacy argument that Microsoft takes your data, but so will Google, and it's not as if the business cared either way, because if they did they'd install an adblocker or Firefox, which they don't.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago*

    Hate to say it, but I think you're giving the average person way too much credit. Most people are just not that smart.

    "Think of how stupid the average person is, and then realize that half of them are stupider than that." - George Carlin

    Average and below internet users are not the kind of people you meet on Lemmy. They are people like the aging Gen-Xer who doesn't know the difference between "the internet" and a web browser, or the kid whose parents shoved a tablet in their face to get them to be quiet for an hour.

    Most people want computers to be an appliance like a washing machine - the thought that they can shape their own experience on their phone or computer never even occurs to them.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago

    I suspect they spend most of their time in apps and not surfing the internet. Just a guess really since I saw the mobile traffic exceeded desktop. A lot of people don't spend hours on the "internet" surfing. Tic Tok sure. Hell I'm getting more and more like that. Even when I use chrome I still only go the the same sites for the most part. lol

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    The plan to deprecate Chrome V2 extensions has been constantly postponed again and again for years now. There is NO SCHEDULED DATE for this to happen currently, and when it is announced it will be more than 6 months out.

    Source: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/chromium-extensions/c/zQ77HkGmK9E/m/HjaaCIG-BQAJ?pli=1

    If Google really wanted to kill ad blockers, they would have done this years ago.

    They don't. They want to force ad blockers and other similar extensions to use more efficient APIs that don't slow down the web. Extension developers overall (not just ad blockers) aren't happy with the changes, so they're still working on the APIs.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Hmmm, on the bright side, with lemmy going mainstream maybe some of this culture (including privacy and FOSS) becomes more and more openly discussed.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (2 children)

    As much as I love Lemmy I don't see it going mainstream :/
    It's too weird for the general user

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Yeah I agree. Arguably reddit isn't even mainstream, and it is exponentially larger than Lemmy now and will remain so for the foreseeable future.

    I'm really loving Lemmy, but it is not even remotely a factor if we are having a conversation about things that are mainstream enough to reflect popular opinion.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Then why are you here "Generic User 1234"?

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago

    I'm sorry, I don't know if "general user" means what I think it means. English is not my first language.

    What I meant was that most people who use the internet and social media on a regular basis aren't exactly nerdy/tech-savvy. So as soon as you start talking to them about federated instances and whatnot, they lose interest.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    I mean I love Lemmy but I don't see it going mainstream :/
    It's too weird for the general user

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I dunno. Lemmy isn't all that weird outside the first little bit of choosing an instance and signing up for communities. Everything since that has felt extremely normal to me. Some more thought about that and a good instance onboarding workflow can be implemented, that seems like a solvable problem.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago*

    I completely agree, I don't find it difficult at all. But I have already tried to recommend it to a couple of friends and just having to go through those first steps was enough for them not to want to use Lemmy.

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