I kinda have to at work. Our classroom computers reset between classes and Chrome is the only browser installed. I might ask IT about that, moving forward, given uBlock getting neutered soon.
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Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
I don’t understand seemingly intelligent people who still blindly use chrome at this point…
FinalRemix@lemmy.world 5 months ago
alphabethunter@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I have a similar issue at my school as well. Chrome is the only allowed browser, and each of us have to use our own school email as our login session in chrome, so we get that much of user space, and that actually works quite decently. I had ublock installed on my user account so far, but if it breaks, I’ll just have to suffer. Although, the real problem is that the school I work in uses some digital books that only work 100% in Chrome, and all show some form of weird behaviour in non-chromiun based browsers. And there’s a 0 chance they are changing it.
stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
It’s not about intelligence it’s about what keeps you up at night. Most people aren’t bothered by cookies and ads, somehow.
a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
this is something i cannot understand. my brain would fking die from the seizures the modern, ad infested web induces.
omarfw@lemmy.world 5 months ago
It used to be worse. Pop ups are mostly a thing of the past. The web used to be a shit hole and there were no ad blockers back then.
Regardless, you’re right. I don’t understand why or how people could be ignorant of the existence of adblock in 2024 unless they’re boomers.
wewbull@feddit.uk 5 months ago
Since ads began, there have been ad-blockers. You just didn’t know about them.
Lemminary@lemmy.world 5 months ago
And the creepiness. Advertisers can deduce many habits based on the information you give them. Some techniques can tell when people are pregnant before they do based on their pathing inside the store, for instance.
Ragnarok314159@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
And yet, all they continue to sell me is a dryer when I just bought one a month ago.
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Most people are stupid, myopic imbeciles that arent bothered by anything until it personally affects them.
Then they’ll howl like wolves at the moon about the great injustice of it all, and how could anyone allow this to happen.
cultsuperstar@lemmy.world 5 months ago
You’d be amazed at what seemingly intelligent people will do or say or believe.
baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
I know people who I thought brilliant until they said they were voting for trump. Way to shatter my opinion of you, jagoff.
Stern@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I’m only using it atm for extensions that are, ironically enough, blocked on Firefox… Though thats only one website in particular.
thatsnothowyoudoit@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
For those of us who work in (or love) tech - we (myself included) grossly overestimate how much the general public cares about, or cares to be informed about, this stuff. Heck, even people in tech who know better.
I wish it wasn’t the case but look how long and hard Microsoft moved on Internet Explorer and ActiveX back in the early days of the web.
Google and Chrome is just another bit of history repeating.
As an aside, I’ve been using Zen for about a week and it’s been wonderful. Easy transition from Firefox because it largely is Firefox, so anll my containers, extensions, annd settings carried over. Zen’s workspaces provide exactly the promise I’d hoped “tab groups” brought with Safari (but never worked right). I just wish there was an equivalent to the Hush plug-in on Safari (even after a year of full-timing FF, consent-o-matic is quite poor).
Orygin@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Yeah I work in tech and I’m the only one that cares enough to use Firefox. All my colleagues use chrome or chrome with makeup.
Maybe ad blocking will be what broke the camel’s back, but I doubt more than a few will care enough to switch.