Comment on Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome
kautau@lemmy.world 1 year agoWhile 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.