• glowie@infosec.pub
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    27 days ago

    Sad to think there will be real people who are fine with the privacy invasive spyware

    • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.net
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      27 days ago

      my ex fiance loved personalized ads because that’s how she found out about products she wanted and i was like… but you didn’t want it before you knew it existed. you were just living your life perfectly fine and now you’re $20 poorer

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        26 days ago

        Haha yup the amount of times I’ve tried to educate friends/family only to feel like banging my head against a brick wall would be more effective are far too many

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        27 days ago

        It’s still the most widely used browser, even if it doesn’t individually effect you doesn’t mean it’s not bad

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        27 days ago

        There’s also Chrome-derivatives and Chromium and whether those could excise the AI spyware and how deep that gets embedded into it.

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          27 days ago

          That’s been a problem all along and one reason why I’ve never advised chrome alternatives unless someone is demanding to use Chrome over anything else. Firefox and probably 50 different forks of it would be superior in every way, and then maybe… Opera? I don’t even know anymore. Firefox is the only one holding things together.

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      27 days ago

      That actually sounds like a good thing. Google has only been going down this exact path anyways with Chrome, at least if this happened it would make headlines and more people would wake up and leave that nightmare browser.

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    27 days ago

    This is the biggest anti-endorsement I’ve ever heard. Thank you for telling us all that. I will absolutely never be using this browser.

  • rem26_art@fedia.io
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    27 days ago

    Well im definitely not gonna use it then. It’s also apparently being built on top of Chromium so its not like its a brand new browser engine or anything. I wonder if they even had human programmers work on it, or just let their own AI churn out some slop for them.

  • Higgs boson@dubvee.org
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    27 days ago

    Blip. Just like that, they are dead to me. I know our society has decided super invasive data collection for ads is okay… I’ve decided that is another part of the social contract we need to revisit. With prejudice.

  • IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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    27 days ago

    Once it becomes popular … then they’ll play down their focus on wanting to track everything … dress it up in pretty colours and some kind of swoosh … then sell it as a feel good product … five years later everyone is complaining that they are being tracked and that the company is using hyper personalized ads