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if you useanything alphabet like chromium, then YOU are the problem.
I think it’s pretty unfair to put all of the blame on everyone who uses a chromium browser, considering that most people with a computer have no idea what the hell you are talking about.
Google Chrome is the single most popular web browser. Everyone’s work uses it, everyone’s school uses it, why would they possibly question it? And then they discover a new browser someone recommended - why would they look into “chromium” and what it all means? It’s just not reasonable to expect of nearly the entire population at this stage.
Take your anger out on the company and educate people. This is a problem of education, not selfishness (on the part of the user).
If you've found your way to the technology community on a federated lemmy instance, youre techy enough to take the blame for using chromium
This is true, and there are people who are required to use it at work due to bad and outdated policies, but I do think it's fair to say of anyone who does know better yet stubbornly persists in using Brave or Chrome.
I have seen people reply that they don't care if they're supporting an untrustworthy homophobic cryptobro because "everything is bad" or something like that. Those people are part of the problem. We're spiraling toward a situation where internet is the new cable TV, under full control of two colossal corporate entities (Google and Microsoft), and I think it's fair to expect more from those of us who do know better, but stubbornly persist for whatever reason.
I agree, but I think it stems from the frustration we all feel that we're losing our privacy and now we're even at risk of losing the ability to choose our own services (with Google's proposed DRM changes and the possibility of gutting certain services in Manifest v3).
It's accurate that a very small slice of the pie are non-chromium users, and so I understand what you mean by "no one uses Firefox." I'm not quite sure what to do to change that.
Also, I can understand why people get upset about this and might seem unhinged. For me, worst-case scenario is I simply no longer use the internet unless I'm required to for work; but for many people, the internet hosts their only comfortable spaces. For example, I've seen an interactive map where LGBT+ people post from where they live, and there are people living in the absolute middle of nowhere in rabidly conservative towns of less than 500. I can understand that the prospect of losing our privacy and the only safe spaces they've got must feel devastating.
I totally get that, yeah. I understand.
Right, but if I take your perfectly reasonable and mature position then I can't prove to the web how edgy and superior I am!
from what i understand 99% of US mobile views is safari. NOBODY needs to use Chrome.
Everyone uses it? ARE YOU DRUNK? give the firefox sub a visit and meet many people with backbones.
the problem laziness! one can educated themselves. chrome as much as apple users keep repeating the sentence "but it works so well"...for them...on the backs of others....hm, if that is not selfish i dunno what is. fuck em!
I really don't understand why people get so confrontational about this kind of thing. It's a fucking web browser. I have a strong opinion about how they should be developed, but it has never been important to me to actually care what other people choose to use, especially not to the degree of lashing out at end users.
Educating people on their choices is good, but nobody should be getting this worked up over user choice.
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Bro, eat a snickers…
What do you mean by “on the backs of others”? Are you saying that then using chrome impacts others that don’t use chrome?
Firefox ftw