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[–] 148 points 3 years ago* (21 children)

Time to De-Google I guess. I will keep using Firefox and if or when I come across any website pulling this crap I won't hesitate to blast them to eternity. I suggest everyone else do the same please.

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  • [–] 64 points 3 years ago (10 children)

    Time was a decade ago... But better now than never.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 years ago (9 children)

    With that kind of attitude, it's a wonder no one listened to you a decade ago!

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  • [–] 25 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    Lol. As soon as I heard someone upload their contacts to Google I thought "welp, I'm out." And yeah, no one listened then either.

    Still, we got diaspora working finally. May the force be with you.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    I've been converting folks where I can! I work in IT for a huge corporation, so our computers all come pre-loaded with Firefox set as the default browser haha.

    And with you!

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Damn. How'd you swing that? Everyone I know is still stuck in the Microsoft/Chrome cycle.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago

    I don't give my users a choice at work and those computers are all locked down to where they'd need an admin to install Chrome.

    As far as my personal life goes, I've just been the go-to guy for computer questions for friends and family most of my life, so they usually listen to my advice, but it also helps to just go into detail as to why the change is necessary (not recommended, but necessary). No one likes to hear that their web browser is making it impossible to block ads and is streamlining the ad experience so they get more ads. Everyone despises ads lol.

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  • [–] 20 points 3 years ago (9 children)

    I’m just going to stop using sites that implement this tech. Maybe I’ll even make a site and actually contribute to the web with all the free time I’ll have 😇

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  • [–] 27 points 3 years ago (8 children)

    It'll be next to impossible when those websites are your bank and Netflix etc.

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  • [–] 20 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Not using Netflix is very possible :) Even easier with the pricing they are up to lately.

    (But I know you were just listing some examples)

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    not sure if you're talking about sailing there, but my point against Netflix would be that there are definitely more things to do in life than sitting through hours of passive low effort entertainment. it's very obvious but I guess people are slowly forgetting about that

    even gaming is better. at least you're exercising your brain and motor skills

    the banking thing is something else though. but it's the kind of thing that's probably done for security anyway, so it's not that bad and things like that definitely wouldn't be profitable enough for all this effort Google and others are putting into it 😅

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I'm out of the loop on this one and I'm probably the minority here but big banks would probably incorporate this whole WEI thing but wouldn't smaller institutions like credit unions opt out? I apologize for my ignorance, I haven't looked into this at all. This is the first time I'm hearing about WEI and I'm trying to garner some sort of and idea of what it is via comments rather than reading an article about it like a regular human being.

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