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The Enshittification Train (thelemmy.club)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/funny@sh.itjust.works
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[–] 73 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (27 children)

Lol who is even using chrome still?

Edit: Yes guys I know, I am aware of the borderline monopoly Google has had on the browser space. My question should have been: Who is tech savvy and is using Google Chrome voluntarily?

I bet those numbers are inflated by work and school computers forcing it down your throat.

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  • [–] 33 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    They install it on my work laptop without my saying so. I uninstall it every time, and until they explicitly ask me to use it, I’m sticking with Firefox.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    Ayy what's up twin.

    "Oh our portals are only certified for Chrome. Firefox won't work."

    I beg to differ.

    Chrome's last genuine use died Aug 2024 when Puppeteer started supporting Firefox.

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  • [–] 13 points 4 months ago (6 children)

    About 68% of the world according to this.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Does that count people using programs that you can't control using chrome on the backend such as Steam? It wouldn't be installed at all on my system if it weren't for stuff such as that.

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  • [–] 0 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Which again confirms my assumption that most people are idiots.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago

    Some might call you an idiot for "not wearing the right clothes" or "not eating X".

    Just because others don't have the same amount of interest about something, albeit having some would help, doesn't mean they're idiots.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    Unfortunately I am. I really really don't want to be but somehow Firefox has turned into a buggy mess. Maybe it's just me but I have so many issues with it.

    Dragging into a browser window doesn't work half the time. Trying to drag a tab nearly always bugs out the window resulting in no mouse clicks for tabs or address bar. Something screws up sometimes causing browser to flip to a random tab every time I switch back to a window, somehow related to pressing CTRL+ something. Sometimes the mouse cursor in a textbox/textarea screws up where it's not positioned where I'm typing, and I've even seen it go backwards while I type.

    I have experienced these things often, albeit most of them only after having multiple windows open with many tabs. And they're not isolated to just one installation on one computer.

    I'm just baffled how there can be so many consistent issues though. So much so that I can't justify using it over Chromium any longer, even with all of the issues with Chromium.

    I've been using Firefox since the beginning, and I'm an adamant supporter of them. I really hope they get these things sorted out.

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  • [+] -6 points 4 months ago (8 children)

    The people who are slightly less braindead than edge users lol

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago* (6 children)

    Nah. At this point, Edge is actually a technically superior and slightly more trustworthy browser than Chrome.

    Deliberately using Chrome rather than Edge is super braindead.

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  • [–] 12 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Edge? The browser that stores credentials in the clear? That Edge?

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    Shit take lol, seeing as Edge doesn't install literal malware (yet)

    If anything, everyone that's tried to incessantly shove Chrome onto Internet Explorer users for years knowing full well about all its privacy issues owe them all an apology.

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