If you have older family members, you could try just installing Firefox for them and tell them it’s their internet now. This worked for me parents.
Harvey656@lemmy.world 1 week ago
While this will drive some users to Firefox, we all know it won’t be enough. Too many people simple don’t know, or don’t care, it won’t affect their lives in any meaningful way, or so they will believe. Google will be harming the tech illiterate and normies (sorry for the slur) because money, bullshit, and to drive the stake deeper into the monopoly. If you have older family members using chrome, sit them down and explain to them the dangers of the internet without adblock.
forgotaboutlaye@lemmy.world 1 week ago
yessikg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
Same
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
Not for mine, they couldn’t make the switch even though everything was the same
setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 1 week ago
It gets me thinking. Tech literate people are the types to install blockers, and would be the same type of people both motivated and knowledgeable about how to switch browsers. On the line of thinking it seems like it is just going to drive them away from Chrome. Tech illiterate people remain unaffected since they are getting ads anyway.
But then on the other hand, if someone is tech literate then why are they even still using Chrome? Does such a person value whatever advantage Chrome theoretically provides over their ad-blocking?
shneancy@lemmy.world 1 week ago
as a chromium browser user - i’ve been meaning to switch to firefox, and i know it’ll take me maybe a day, but it feels like so much workkkk. In a similar fashion i’ve been meaning to switch to Linux for ages too. I guess it just hasn’t gotten bad enough for me to take action
as long as my adblockers & script blockers work, i’m not forced to upgrade to win11, and win10 still has security updates i don’t think it’s pushing on my discomfort buttons strong enough. I know the day will come, but like with a lot of things in my life - why do something today when i can do it tomorrow?
wewbull@feddit.uk 1 week ago
What do you mean “work”? What is it that needs to move?
You just fire up Firefox and start using it. It’ll even scrape your chrome setup to move bookmarks and stuff over.
It’s not an OS. It’s an application.
shneancy@lemmy.world 1 week ago
i don’t use chrome itself. i have a lot of saved things, roughly a million tabs open at every moment, and passwords saved which i do not remember
yikerman@lemmy.world 1 week ago
That’s some procrastination going on. Sometimes you should force yourself to start doing something for a minute or so and things will eventually change.
jape@infosec.pub 1 week ago
I feel you. It’s vey much a convenience thing, and sitting down with something you’re used to.
alphabethunter@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I use Opera for myself, but I have to use Chrome for work reasons (user profiles for different work areas based on whatever email is being used at the company computer). Thing is, Firefox also lacks the feature that makes me use Opera: speed dial. My Opera starting page is my speed dials, and speed dials are 10x better than just bookmarks, and I wouldn’t want to go through all the trouble of transfering literally hundreds of saved pages to standard bookmarks. But, if ublock fully stops working, guess I’ll have no choice.