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If you can, use Firefox.

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[–] [email protected] 417 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (5 children)

Chrome got blacklisted by our IT dept because of this.

"Ads are attack vectors."

[–] [email protected] 109 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Chrome hasn't worked for months on our network due to this and was removed recently with the latest updates last week

[–] [email protected] 35 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago

Let's Fucking Go

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Lesbian for gay. It's online dating slang

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Looking for group (usually to play games with)

[–] [email protected] 106 points 10 months ago (3 children)

And mine is making the switch from Firefox to Chrome next year. I'm so fucking mad about it.

[–] [email protected] 84 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Ditto. The security department made the push because too many people were installing unapproved addons like ublock. They are mandating chrome, "for security". LMAO

The irony is that people are signing into chrome with personal gmail and leaking stuff.

[–] [email protected] 94 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

You can lockdown user addons in both chrome and firefox via GPO. You can also auto install them with the same policies if you like. Both browsers have enterpise admx files available.

Your security department sounds like they are bad at their jobs.

[–] [email protected] 84 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Your security department sounds like they are bad at their jobs.

First time in corporate?

[–] [email protected] 32 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Nah. I work in the field.

Im well aware of bad security teams. Looks like they got one.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Came here to say the exact same thing. It really is amazing to me just how many IT professionals are bad at their jobs.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 10 months ago

Tech is a boogie man to many executypes. I've seen plenty of IT pros that were in over their head but smooth enough con men. If they keep coming up with things to throw money at/trim money out of convincingly they have long and successful careers.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

I don't think it's worse than any other office job.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Meanwhile, I'm over here unable to find an IT job :')

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

When I lost my job over the summer I put my resume on dice and immediately had 3-4 guys with Indian accents calling me every day. I found a new job within a week. I still get emails and texts though, can't put the genie back in the bottle

[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

uBlock Origin is pretty much approved by Mozilla and ads are a big attack vector while Chrome is spyware.

If they use Windows, you can use Firefox Portable of PortableApps.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

Not sure, it's a big corpo so the decision is far from me. Probably bribes or a C level exec that likes Chrome on his home laptop.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Switch to Edge would make sense due to how well it integrates with things like your Entra ID account, choosing Chrome now is bizarre. We also had Chrome as primary browser for years, but now we are pushing Edge as primary browser. Firefox was and still is an option for us as well.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Waiting to hear if my company follows suit. Most of our internal tools are built with Chrome in mind, so it would be a big effort to standardize on something else.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Chrome is pretty much the defacto standard for web. If it works with chrome, you're probably safe.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Meanwhile my work mandates that we must use Edge. It's fine from a usability perspective but I would much prefer my beloved Firefox at work, especially with the tab groups they have where you can have multiple different sessions

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

I've been using Edge at work. I literally made the decision as "this is a Microsoft heavy shop, Microsoft is pushing Edge hard, and Bing is kinda good now, so let's see how this goes" and I haven't had a need to switch back.

I use Edge's different profiles for testing, work stuff and personal stuff to keep them nicely separated and prevent any from bleeding too hard into eachother