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Judge in US v. Google trial didn’t know if Firefox is a browser or search engine (arstechnica.com)
submitted 3 years ago by [M, B] to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Judge in US v. Google trial didn’t know if Firefox is a browser or search engine::Google accused DOJ of aiming to force people to use “inferior” search products.

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[–] 14 points 3 years ago (1 child)

That just...seems so wrong. My mentally declining grandmother used firefox back in the 00s era (though now that I think about it, my uncle is a developer, so maybe he set up the computer). How have we backslid since then to where so few people know/use firefox?

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  • [–] 17 points 3 years ago

    Actually yes. Around 2010 Firefox still had like 60% market share. Now, chrome dominates the market and Firefox is in single digits. Chrome gives you so many conveniences, and only a small amount of people care about what you give up for those conveniences. “My data isn’t important. Who cares about what I do?” Is a common response to data mining and sharing.

    Most people don’t want to put the time and effort into researching these things. Most people just don’t have the energy.

    But again if you don’t know anything about a topic you are asked to make a decision on, you should recuse yourself. It’s unfortunate that most people making decisions about tech know very little about it.

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