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[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

Please, everyone, stop using Chrome. This is an easy vote with your wallet that doesn't even require your wallet.

Complacency means the internet gets worse, ads get worse, nickel and diming gets worse. It's the easiest chance to take a stand you'll ever have.

[–] ieightpi@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Yay for Firefox

[–] TheDarkKnight@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Every single thing about Google sucks nowadays. Great job Sundar, you successfully turned one of the former most exciting companies on the planet into one of the absolute lamest.

[–] spiderman@ani.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It was shit even before Sundar Pichai became the CEO

[–] TheDarkKnight@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

He did a great job shitting it up further, also.

[–] Powerpoint@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Switched back to Firefox. Easy transition. Fuck Google.

[–] SkyNTP@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Except websites that will tell you "Use a modern browser, switch to Chrome to view this page".

This sort of thing is becoming more and more pervasive. I'm genuinely worried that between this and web DRM, there will be no where to hide from corporate America ducking everyone over with their greed.

[–] talentes@lemmy.nz 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've been using Firefox for over 5 years now and I don't think I've ever seen this message?

There has been a handful of times when a page just won't work correctly and I have to switch to edge, but that is super rare and has probably been less than 10 occasions

[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

the feature they just implemented will start to trigger this. there is a hardcore push for corporate to go all in on chromium for tracking/drm reasons similar to how IE had that market in the past. as a firefox user im kinda terrified were out of options.

were not talking about what the experience was, but what it will be

[–] MeanEYE@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That was completely expected. You give any company monopoly over anything and they will abuse it. This was Chrome dominating browser market. Microsoft did it with IE back in the day. Now Google is doing it again.

[–] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As much as Micro$oft sucks they at least have a revenue stream independent of data mining. Still won't use Edge, mostly because it isn't great but partially because the verb form of it is edging.

[–] halfempty@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Microsoft Edge is based on the Chrome codebase, so it will get the baked in ad mechanism.