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It blows my mind how many people do you not understand how essentially useless Chrome is now and how much it has changed.
What I don't get is that my browser experience is legitimately better overall, I don't know what was keeping me from switching all these years. Familiarity perhaps.
I had the same reaction. Used to love Firefox with all it's awesome plugins but it took me soo long to go back to it. I just became so used to Chrome that the switch seemed daunting, although, I'll admit it took a little while to get comfortable with it again.
there are many reasons to prefer chromium based browsers, security being one of them
am not saying that firefox is inherently bad, but that there are valid reasons to use something else. I know that this is considered a hot take on lemmy but it needs to be said
On balance, though, since most people go almost exclusively to well-known, uncompromised websites that are legitimate and also trying to harvest data, privacy protections are more important. Defend against the attacks you know are happening and all.
Besides, most attacks are social engineering these days, and even the most secure browser on earth won't defend against that. The recent flurry of high profile YouTube account hijacks was accomplished via malware that stole session tokens from both Chrome and Firefox.
both privacy and security are important and neither one is going to save you from a social engineering attack.
and besides, trusting on your users to only go to well known websites isn't something you should rely on.
but yeah, I totally get your point
Agreed all around.
They said Chrome specifically, not Chromium as a whole.
by Chrome they usually mean chromium and all of its derivatives since those will also get mv3 unless they specifically opt out
What about chrome is useless? What makes chrome so useless that a normie would want it to change? In the end both let you browse the internet just fine. from work i use Firefox and at home i had chrome for years. I did not recognise any diffrenses except ram usage and it beeing a Google product. I changed to firefox at home a few months back so it is the same at work and at home. Can't say it feels any snapier or whatever. For a normie Privacy is no reason to change. They don't care. Ram, they probably don't even know what that is. You have to search for new extensions in the mozilla store if the same one you used does not exist there. That is the reason firefox will not dominate Chrome in my opinion. For a normie there is absolutely no reason to change and normies are the majority of people. Some anecdotal story. At work i installed for some colleges Adblockers because the said some of the ads where anoying and after i did in the following months one after another wanted me to deactivate it again because they could not figure out to visit some websites. As i offered them to show them how they could get around it they just denied. "that is to complicated for me." So yeah. Normies do not care and even worse adblock blockers work.
Not to mention that Youtube and Chrome are run by the same company.
In my book, nothing changed because I refuse to run anything closed source on MY computer.
Very Stallman of you, unfortunately for many people's use cases they will want at least proprietary video codecs or drivers. You could even argue using most websites with minified JS is closed source.
Whatever you're willing to be exterminated for.
Edit: All you fucking morons come here and downvote me but fact of the matter is you will all die and there will be zero reproduction of humanity in far less than a decade from now.
Only Free and Open Source AI Software will save you. Only. But go on, like your vote makes any fucking difference.
Well, that escalated quickly.
Why're you so angry over this?
You read emotions in words written down. You a fishing. You are ignorant.
I'm not sure I understand what you're saying. I'm genuinely curious as to why you're getting so angry over this, that's all.
There's no angry. You're reading shit. Not observing a person.
OK, but can you see how calling people 'fucking morons' and saying they will all die might be misconstrued as sounding angry? This is obviously a topic you care about, else you wouldn't have commented at all. Do you think that adjusting your perceived tone might improve how you interact with people on a topic you care about?
Maybe. I'm working on that but prolly won't go far. I don't really give a fuck. Especially when you're a moron that thinks they can read people's emotions...digitally.
People have been expressing emotion in the written form since writing has been a thing.
An Internet search on "expressing emotion in writing" will give you an education on the subject.
No, sure, of course. But this ain't no book.
This is just an amazing example of being neuro-atypical.
Sociopath? Autism? Some spicy mix of hormones and Mountain Dew? I dunno. But when someone is swearing, ranting and blaming the end of the world on the patriarchy and closed source AI, we can safely say they have lost touch with reality.
You've lost touch with reality. Enjoy your end of all human ends.
I do love a good human end now and then.
There's only one of which I speak, if you, apparently, can't read.
You don't know know what a good ass fucking is, but I'll give you a hint - it starts in your end.
I don't have to physically view you to know you are torn up over this or generally an asshole. You're arguing for the sake of arguing and bitching about internet points.
That's good that you're working on it. I'm sure that must be hard work, so good for you. In terms of reading people's emotions digitally, I'm sure you can see how someone's emotions could be inferred via the words they type online? And the words you're typing seem very hostile for no obvious reason.
You're not psychic. You're playing stupid games implying shit you don't know.
Seem? Keep trying.
OK, so help me out. What should people imply from your words? I assure you I'm not trying to play 'stupid games' I'm genuinely just trying to have a conversation.
Do research. Discover the world will end for all human life, soon. Read and/or listen to the words of Richard Stallman as philosophy behind FOSS. The latter is tough for most. Realize that without FOSS software behind AI then some asshole will be a jackass and that no real help will be acquired for anyone because closed source will give that asshole secret insructions.
It's just basic logic. I'm sick. I'm sick folks don't do basic logic on software and run anything anyone else writes on "their" computer.
OK, thanks. That's sounds important, so I'll look into it. I can understand you're frustrated. I imagine it's hard work getting people to understand, and it seems like something you've identified as important.
It's not dramatic beyond that If you don't understand, everyone dies. Soon.
So angry and hostile. Tsk tsk.
Keep trying, wannabe psychic.
I’d mark this comment to return to in 10 years, but I have a sneaking suspicion you won’t be around to answer me when I point out that we are all neither dead, or sterile.
So I’m just gonna say, 10 years early: Lol
We need a remind me bot. I'll make one in 10 years when I have the time.