Comment on It is essential to stop using Chrome. Under the pretense of saving users from third-party spyware, Google is creating an ecosystem in which Chrome itself is the spyware.

Engywuck@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  but see, they wont. thats the problem.

  google/microsoft are circling the wagons and are about to prevent anything but chrome and edge to be 'official browsers'

  so, to your point, yes we want everyone to use what they want. but continuing to use chrome will kill the very ecosystem that allows the choice you want to have.

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  • TigrisMorte@kbin.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Those of us that lived through the active X nightmare are well aware of the danger monoculture creates. Shame educating others is considered offensive to the sheep.

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    • WldFyre@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Don’t you play Star Citizen?

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  • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    google/microsoft are circling the wagons

    MS would love to be a third option. Instead they admitted that they couldn’t keep up with Google’s constant change and proprietary extensions of Web standards that allow Google services to work with Chrome.

    So Microsoft gave up and adopted Chromium.

    MS isn’t circling the wagons. They already surrendered to Google’s monopoly.

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• noodlejetski@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  let people burn tires in their backyard if they feel like, ffs

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  • Engywuck@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    One thing is illegal, the other is not. Try a different analogy.

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    • aberrate_junior_beatnik@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Everything the Nazis did in the Third Reich was legal. People who resisted them were breaking the law. Maybe we should evaluate things by their impact (pollution/invasion of privacy) rather than their legality.

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      • Engywuck@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Fine. People, stop buying stuff on Amazon, then.

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    • LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If your morals and ethics hinge on legality, then I’ve got some bad news for you…

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      • Engywuck@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I’m not the one making absurd comparison.

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• TigrisMorte@kbin.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And that is why soon there shall be a monoculture of browser and all control shall be ceded to massive corpo.

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  • Engywuck@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Thank Mozilla’s (mis)managemet for that.

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    • yamanii@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      So you are supporting the even greater evil to spite Mozilla? It’s not mozilla pushing manifest v3 that will cripple ublock origin.

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      • Engywuck@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yes. Mozilla doesn’t deserve it’s reputation or its status. And I don’t need Ublock Origin. Stopped using it years ago.

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    • LWD@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’ve been repeatedly surprised by how many people are willing to defend Mozilla by saying every other corporation pays their CEOs too much too. It’s as if Mozilla can do no wrong, as long as other companies are doing worse somewhere else.

      And if that’s the standard people hold it to, well, they’re basically condemning it to have no value whatsoever

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      • Engywuck@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That’s what I have noticed as well. Mozilla always gets a free pass.

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      • TigrisMorte@kbin.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        No one ever remotely gave mozilla a pass by warning that firefox is the last bastion against a return to the proprietary web we barely fought off with IE6.

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    • TigrisMorte@kbin.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Nope, it is ignorant users misleading other users as the subject is firefox's behavior and not the corporate behavior just as the reason to avoid chromium crap is the behavior of chromium crap and the actions of googliebet are an entirely different issue just as Mozillas are.

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• LWD@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If only you had made this comment regarding AI plaigirism, you’d be swimming in the upvotes instead

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  • Engywuck@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If I cared about upvotes (scores are disabled on my end, btw), I’d simply write “use Firefox” over and over, which is what most people on the fediverse like to do (as if Mozilla was any better, nowadays).

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• smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is the reason why we encurage more people to ditch Chrome, because sites starts to only support this one browser?

  We don’t force anyone to everything, we just want more usage so we cannot be forced.

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