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Allah@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

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.

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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.

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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. Given Google's overwhelming presence in the browser market, this is unconscionable. We should all despise the ad-tech business, and have no sympathy for the companies getting whacked by Google's actions. But we should not permit one monopolist to replace them all. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/12/year-review-googles-corporate-paternalism-browser
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    tbh i think it would be better if there was a single collaborative engine instead, owned by a non-profit company like The Linux Foundation

    maybe the W3C could establish their own but idk if they even do anything these days

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      https://xkcd.com/927

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      Relevant xkcd

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      Embrace extend extinguish

      It’s almost already too late at this point

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        Not going to lie, I really hate when the internet gets a new favorite phrase. Destroys discussion on the subjects and feels like it’s a race for commenters to say the hit phrase.

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          PLAY STUPID GAMES,

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          I hate when that happens too, it’s the enshittification of the discussions.

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          If what you were gonna say is quashed by people knowing the big corpo tricks and treachery, then chances are what you had to say served no interests but corpo interest to begin with.

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        It’s not. In the late 90s it was pretty much just IE after Netscape died. Mozilla came from the ashes.

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          Literally. It was originally built on the Netscape engine before making Gecko and transitioning to that.

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        extinguishing Chromium is the goal, isn’t it?

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