Comment on Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome
danielton@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 1 year agoI knew about that. They also pay to be the default search engine on Firefox.
But my joke was that these changes make it seem like they don’t want people to use Chrome anymore and switch to Firefox instead. If users knew about this stuff and understood it, Firefox would bounce back.
kautau@lemmy.world 1 year ago
While I agree at some level, most users aren’t like you or me. They are my mom, my boss, my mailman. They only care about convenience, and understanding even the difference between browsers is one thing, let alone why they should use a different one. Unfortunately I don’t think that’s like to change. If it was, Facebook wouldn’t exist, if those people cared about their online privacy they wouldn’t use the platform, but here we are
danielton@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 1 year ago
Yeah, people knew enough to ditch IE for Firefox, but I think Google’s marketing convinced everybody that Chrome was the best. Most people tell me they use Chrome because it’s the fastest.
kautau@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yeah early on when chrome was released on was a big proponent of it. But that was in Google’s earlier days before they adopted Microsoft’s EEE policy
danielton@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 1 year ago
Really? I always hated it. It was such a resource hog compared to Firefox, and that only got worse as Firefox improved.
My main Linux distro at the time, Fedora, wouldn’t even ship Chromium because of how difficult and inefficient it was to package. It leaves a bunch of Google crap on Mac too.
Was it better on Windows or something? Because it’s always been crap on Linux and Mac.