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If you value privacy, ditch Chrome and switch to Firefox now (www.fastcompany.com)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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With the number of people concerned about privacy, it is a wonder why chrome is even popular.

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[–] 184 points 3 years ago (19 children)

Except most people don't use adblock. I don't even know how they live

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

    I'm conviced those people aren't real and everyone is in fact secretly using an ad blocker.

    I mean, how do you not get annoyed with so much ads? People are probabaly lying in surveys to trick youtube to not blocking adblockers.

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  • [–] 15 points 3 years ago (7 children)

    You are mostly right. Think about how many people use chrome on corporate office computers that they do not have permission to install anything on or modify. It's part of the reason Windows is so dominant. Businesses run windows and chrome a shit ton. I work for a Fortune 100 company. It's Windows and Chrome across the whole company.

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

    I work for a large company and its the same. They even force-install Chrome despite Edge already being there! Yes, some people will make the privacy argument that Microsoft takes your data, but so will Google, and it's not as if the business cared either way, because if they did they'd install an adblocker or Firefox, which they don't.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    Permissions, you say? Lemme introduce you to Portable Apps.

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

    Yeah the second anything gets stuck into a USB port, IT is on WebEx like "Get what's that asshole in pod H-12 doing???"

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago*

    Hate to say it, but I think you're giving the average person way too much credit. Most people are just not that smart.

    "Think of how stupid the average person is, and then realize that half of them are stupider than that." - George Carlin

    Average and below internet users are not the kind of people you meet on Lemmy. They are people like the aging Gen-Xer who doesn't know the difference between "the internet" and a web browser, or the kid whose parents shoved a tablet in their face to get them to be quiet for an hour.

    Most people want computers to be an appliance like a washing machine - the thought that they can shape their own experience on their phone or computer never even occurs to them.

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

    I forget that these people exist sometimes. I can’t ever go back to the internet with no ad blockers.

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

    You realize the Internet costs money. Those sites don't charge due to advertising. If everyone used ad blocker. There wouldn't be internet.

    But blind there

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  • [–] -3 points 3 years ago

    And it exploded because of that. Stuff costs money. You either pay for it or ads though.

    I'd prefer having the internet of now than what was before.

    You can use ad blocker but I'm pointing out the your theory. Without ads the Internet doesn't exist in its current form. As long as 90% don't use ad blocker it's all good.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 years ago

    I suspect they spend most of their time in apps and not surfing the internet. Just a guess really since I saw the mobile traffic exceeded desktop. A lot of people don't spend hours on the "internet" surfing. Tic Tok sure. Hell I'm getting more and more like that. Even when I use chrome I still only go the the same sites for the most part. lol

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