With the number of people concerned about privacy, it is a wonder why chrome is even popular.

  • Maped@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    3 days ago

    2 years later, the “Manifest” is doing it’s job and still I know some people that would not leave their favorite Chrome.

        • 001100 010010@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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          2 years ago

          I’m conviced those people aren’t real and everyone is in fact secretly using an ad blocker.

          I mean, how do you not get annoyed with so much ads? People are probabaly lying in surveys to trick youtube to not blocking adblockers.

          • littlecolt@lemm.eeEnglish
            3·
            2 years ago

            You are mostly right. Think about how many people use chrome on corporate office computers that they do not have permission to install anything on or modify. It’s part of the reason Windows is so dominant. Businesses run windows and chrome a shit ton. I work for a Fortune 100 company. It’s Windows and Chrome across the whole company.

            • Pyro@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              2 years ago

              I work for a large company and its the same. They even force-install Chrome despite Edge already being there! Yes, some people will make the privacy argument that Microsoft takes your data, but so will Google, and it’s not as if the business cared either way, because if they did they’d install an adblocker or Firefox, which they don’t.

              • littlecolt@lemm.eeEnglish
                1·
                2 years ago

                Yeah the second anything gets stuck into a USB port, IT is on WebEx like “Get what’s that asshole in pod H-12 doing???”

          • reversebananimals@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            2 years ago

            Hate to say it, but I think you’re giving the average person way too much credit. Most people are just not that smart.

            “Think of how stupid the average person is, and then realize that half of them are stupider than that.” - George Carlin

            Average and below internet users are not the kind of people you meet on Lemmy. They are people like the aging Gen-Xer who doesn’t know the difference between “the internet” and a web browser, or the kid whose parents shoved a tablet in their face to get them to be quiet for an hour.

            Most people want computers to be an appliance like a washing machine - the thought that they can shape their own experience on their phone or computer never even occurs to them.

        • amenotef@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          2 years ago

          It could be a good thing. Maybe they won’t bother about people blocking ads because they become even less than before.

          So maybe you need to pause the ad block a lot less.

        • notannpc@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          2 years ago

          I forget that these people exist sometimes. I can’t ever go back to the internet with no ad blockers.

        • GreyDawn@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          2 years ago

          I suspect they spend most of their time in apps and not surfing the internet. Just a guess really since I saw the mobile traffic exceeded desktop. A lot of people don’t spend hours on the “internet” surfing. Tic Tok sure. Hell I’m getting more and more like that. Even when I use chrome I still only go the the same sites for the most part. lol

      • HughJanus@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        They won’t. The vast majority aren’t using any kind of ad-blockers in the first place or Google would go out of business.

    • Frost Wolf@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      Hmmm, on the bright side, with lemmy going mainstream maybe some of this culture (including privacy and FOSS) becomes more and more openly discussed.

      • Torres@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        As much as I love Lemmy I don’t see it going mainstream :/
        It’s too weird for the general user

        • theragu40@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          2 years ago

          Yeah I agree. Arguably reddit isn’t even mainstream, and it is exponentially larger than Lemmy now and will remain so for the foreseeable future.

          I’m really loving Lemmy, but it is not even remotely a factor if we are having a conversation about things that are mainstream enough to reflect popular opinion.

  • GigglyBobble@kbin.social
    14·
    2 years ago

    Firefox is a weird buggy mess that constantly freezes.

    This is definitely not normal, Firefox never freezes for me. May be worth checking that out, especially your extensions.

    • TeamAssimilation@infosec.pubEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      Especially your security programs, like third-party antivirus or firewalls. They can install system-level plugins in your browsers, and sometimes those don’t work well. Windows defender and the built in firewall are good enough and play nice with other programs.

    • Mihuy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      2 years ago

      In adittion to this make sure to disable the telemetry that’s on by default. If you want even better protection from fingerprinting etc, use arkenfox/librewolf (librewolf being preconfigured fork of firefox)

  • Metallibus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    2 years ago

    IMO the thing is that people don’t care about their privacy. Sure, some people around here do, but your average person owns an Alexa, has a FB/Instagram account and constantly posts their location, uses the same password on many sites, uses TikTok, doesn’t block cookies, etc etc etc.

    Most people don’t actually care. Some claim they do, but then can’t even be bothered to stop using Instagram etc because of the “inconvenience”… So do they really care?

    Some companies (Apple, etc) push their products under a narrative around safety and security, and people will repeat that point as a way to justify a decision they already made, but if they actually cared, they would be doing other things too. But they don’t.

    The number of us who do actually care about privacy and security is actually very small.

    • fatalError@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      2·
      10 months ago

      Dark reader - for dark mode everywhere

      Decentreyes - for avoiding CDNs that track you

      Sponsorblock - to skip sponsored parts on youtube

      Enhancer for youtube - for a nicer overall experience, specific quality setting by default, scroll wheel volume, and more

    • fatalError@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      At work I guess you only do work related stuff, so at the end of the day it’s only work-related data that the browser has access to. Why would it matter to you?

      99.9% of my the personal browsing I do is in firefox both on phone and desktop, but on work laptop I use Edge because 1. the work web-apps seem to favour chromium based browsers and 2. it’s not my data so I don’t really care about the privacy of my company’s data, they have a data privacy officer to worry about that.

      • AteshgaRubyTeeth@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 days ago

        No, at work I regularly do non work related stuff. Also when doing work related stuff I prefer to use firefox as I can use adblockers.

        Having said that I understand that I’m using work supplied laptop and if they force me to use Internet Explorer than that’s what I have to use.

        Having said that it’s not so important as for my personal browser.

  • Captain Poofter@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    The whole Reddit debacle has really made me rethink all my services. I recently installed duck duck go and still getting used to it, so not quite sure if I’m ready to make another drastic change.

    I used to love Firefox in 2006 or so, but got Chrome when it was released and forgot about Firefox. I think I’ll open a tab in my chrome browser for the Firefox page now…this is how I remind myself to delve deeper into stuff later. Thanks for the inspiration, everyone. Google has irked me ever since removing the Don’t Be Evil mantra.

    • TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyzEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      Firefox has a super simple way to import everything from your Chrome install. And from what I can tell it has every feature plus more. Was very easy for me to switch. I was actually inspired to try it as my daily driver since Chrome hogs an uncomfortable amount of RAM on my laptop

      • LetMeEatCake@lemmy.worldEnglish
        0·
        2 years ago

        There was one extension I used in Chrome that I haven’t found a Firefox replacement for, but I stopped trying to look a while ago and just live without it.

        Was a specific kind of cookie manager: you could whitelist a set of websites to keep their cookies. Everything else would be deleted when you told the extension to do so.

        Too many websites need cookies that stick around indefinitely. But I also don’t want to delete everything everytime I close Firefox, because I may want to keep a website around for a few days without wanting to bother adding it to a whitelist.

  • Virkkunen@kbin.social
    2·
    2 years ago

    With the number of people concerned about privacy, it is a wonder how privacy is still a word in the dictionary

  • ciberConas3000@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    I recently did the switch, pretty similar in terms of experience. Only thing I can point out about firefox is that chrome’s page translator is faster and more efficient. I’m using the Google translate extension, if someone knows off a better one.

  • Porka_911@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    21·
    1 year ago

    Chrome does have a use, namely Selenium and automation.

    I’m guilty of having Chrome on my PC, as I need to nerf over my favourites to Firefox.

    Firefox is my browser of choice on my Google Pixel 7, but then again no doubt it makes little difference.

    I just choose to use a VPN, so any targeted adverts are blocked regardless of the profile built up from my browsing habits.

    • HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com
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      19 days ago

      As someone else mentioned they have several browsers and so do I. I actually do google stuff in chrome and microsoft stuff in edge and would do apple stuff in its browser if they did not mess up the login stuff. then my firefox is my real browser.

  • HughJanus@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    With the number of people concerned about privacy, it is a wonder why chrome is even popular.

    It’s no wonder. It’s because people aren’t actually concerned about privacy.

    If you ask someone if they’re “concerned about privacy” many people will of course say yes. If you follow up that question with “what are you willing to do about it”, you’ll find that the answer is a resounding “not a God damn thing”. If they were they would spend 3 minutes on Google looking for an alternative browser that works even better than Chrome but without the privacy invasions.

    A browser is the low-hanging fruit on the “do-you-care-about-privacy meter”. It’s the one step with no sacrifices and the highest increase in privacy.