Comment on ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web

cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Dearth@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Nobody on this platform. But on the normie web there’s probably some folks who think it’s a good idea

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  • sqgl@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    So many of them that it is scary. And educating them will probably often elicit the stubborn response: “I don’t care, I like it, it’s convenient and the errors ain’t like me” (at least if their attitude towards privacy is any indication).

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  • artyom@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Way too many people drinking the corporate koolaid and continually using and recommending this trash, despite what their own eyes show them.

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  • tal@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The overwhelming majority of users will use whatever’s preinstalled on their platform. I dunno if OpenAI can go pay some cell phone manufacturer to preinstall their browser, but if they want marketshare, I’m pretty sure that that’s the only realistic route to do so.

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    • flamingos@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Not really, Chrome has an overwhelming dominance on desktop despite not being preinstalled on any desktop operating system.

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      • artyom@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        It is pre-installed, and in fact, the only 1 available, on ChromeOS (which is fortunately dying).

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      • MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Often preinstalled on prebuilts and laptops though, along with the OEMs bloat

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• Alaknar@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  does anyone at this point think to themselves that (…)

  Yes.

  Whatever the rest of this sentence would be, the answer is “yes”.

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  • hietsu@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Furthermore, I’ve found the answer to this being not just ”yes” but ”yes, most of them”. I think I’ll just give up.

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• LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Yes

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