• @randint
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    379 months ago

    I tried to preach why Google sharing your browsing history with ad partners is bad, but most of my friends don’t seem to care. :(

    • @mattomattic@discuss.tchncs.de
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      149 months ago

      It’s frustrating, I get it too. Nobody cares until the leopard bites their face. Then it’s too late, and we’re all affected by their indifference/laziness/ignorance.

      • @oogles@lemmy.world
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        09 months ago

        I’m probably going to get downvotes for this, but I seriously don’t understand why you care whether other people care. If you don’t like Chrome and it’s approach to privacy, don’t use it. But man am I sick of people being so preachy about it. Just make your own choices and stop forcing your choices on others yeesh.

        • @SkyNTP@lemmy.ml
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          79 months ago

          This line of thinking only works if you live as a hermit at the edge of the forest. Living in a society means dealing with consequences of the choices of others.

          As far as browsers are concerned, having Firefox is pointless if 95% of websites will refuse to serve you content because you don’t have some cryptographically signed chrome web DRM enabled.

        • Captain Aggravated
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          59 months ago

          However deep the public at large deems is acceptable for raw sewage to puddle in the street is exactly how much sewage I have to wade through on my way to the store.

    • @TheJackalChan@lemmygrad.ml
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      9 months ago

      Everybody hates this stuff EXCEPT when Google does it and then they’re suddenly apathetic.

      I don’t fuckin get it.

      • @emil_98@lemmy.world
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        119 months ago

        Probably because most people use google for everything. Not to mention chrome is practically synonymous with speed, although I got sick of it for its shit reliability

    • @blind3rdeye@lemm.ee
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      29 months ago

      I think people care, but there is a lot of inertia. i.e. it takes a lot of little nudges for people to change their habits.

      • @randint
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        29 months ago

        Ah, I see. Thanks for the heads up!