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Is this even legal? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I just got this popup while playing New vegas. I don't even use chrome, i've switched to firefox. How can this be allowed? Also, this is Win10

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How can a search engine be "Chrome under the hood"?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Brave browser is based on Google's Chromium. Presumably they thought you meant the browser and not the search engine

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Eww I'm not touching any browsers based on Chromium

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Well that leaves Firefox (and it’s forks, too many to list) and safari to choose from.

Chrome, brave, edge, opera, vivaldi and a few more I can’t remember are based on chromium

Edit: realized my mistake about opera and vivaldi

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Opera sold its soul some years ago. It is also chromium based.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I keep hearing this but can’t find any basis for this

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, since 2013. It's in the wikipedia entry

On 28 May 2013, a beta release of Opera 15 was made available,[49] the first version based on the Chromium project.[50][51] Many distinctive Opera features of the previous versions were dropped, and Opera Mail was separated into a standalone application derived from Opera 12.[52]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera_(web_browser)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I looked it up and corrected my post. Had to change Vivaldi also as it is opera fork.

I honestly thought you were talking about the “opera is owned by china” fud

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's always Lynx. Browse the web like it's 1988.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I forgot about that one. But a lot of people on the web won’t use it since it’s not as “innovative as the others” to them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Back in my day we had to sacrifice a robot to get Netscape Navigator to dial the internet.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I remember those days. For that matter I remember when the internet didn’t exist. You wanted to talk to more than one person we had party lines on the landline phones and you had to know who you were talking to in order to call or add them to it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Still better than Internet Explorer.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How can a search engine be “Chrome under the hood”?

Cylon infiltrators.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They’re in the frakkin browser!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They're in the frakkin browser!

Lol, this got me by the bubu.