• atyaz@reddthat.com
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    In this thread lots of uninformed people rationalizing why it’s actually okay to use chromium.

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        I mean, define “ok” in this context

        Will chrome kill you? No

        Will chrome physically hurt anyone else because you used it? No

        Will the internet become less free if google is able to successfully force this? Yes

        Does using chrome contribute to this? Yes, marginally

        Would as many people as possible switching off of chrome and chromium and onto an alternative help? Yes

        I find this whole thing an interesting argument, as someone who switched from chrome to firefox for extremely unrelated reasons months ago.

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          The same people say “boycotts don’t work”. The facepalming here is hard. Welcome to the ad riddled future that you helped make because “people can use what they like” (because it’s being pushed by a huge corporate entity and they want you to use it so they can shove ads down your throat and you should laugh at people who would use anything different)

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    And thus the brave lammings set out to inform other lemmings, who are as tech savvy and know this is happening, that this is happening by posting memes. Hopefully the people, who would already be using firefox if they cared, switch to firefox so we can breach the 3% market share and that’ll show Google, maker of Chrome and Firefox’ main sponsor, people care enough to stop this madness! - I’m not against activism, but activism in an echochamber can turn into a circlejerk. Everyone stop stroking please… I’m here for the memes.

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    1 year ago

    It feels like last week we were defending proprietary software, ads, and tracking against those mean old FOSS zealots who actually care about privacy and freedom. Are you saying we care about those things now?

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      We now know how much we do or don’t care about these things, based on all arguments provided. Some people might even give firefox a try after last week, which is great. I’m saying we have seen enough memes full of browser logo’s for now.