Is it possible to get Netflix to run on Firefox or Chromium on Linux? Last time I checked I could only watch it in Chrome (Ubuntu).
Why I’m done with Chrome
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Re: Why I’m done with Chrome
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I was excited by “Don’t be evil” back in the early days. But maybe they should’ve chosen “Don’t be stupid or evil” because their amnesia, arrogance and carelessness remind me of so many hilarious sad stories from the early days in the tech industry as recounted in this book which I own: In Search of Stupidity: Over Twenty Years of High Tech Marketing Disasters
“Don’t forget not to be evil” I don’t believe the founders have had personality transplant, so why has google become evil?
Partly they're stepping back a bit and partly they've drunk their own koolaid?
Re: Why I’m done with Chrome
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> Search for "gun rights" in Google, and the Wikipedia feature box on the top-right of the results page is the Gun Control article. That could have a very simple explanation: There is no Wikipedia page for "Gun Rights". There is however a Wikipedia page for "Right to Keep and Bear Arms" which is exactly what appears in the Wikipedia box on the right or as the first Wikipedia article when you search for "right to bear…
> That could have a very simple explanation: There is no Wikipedia page for "Gun Rights". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_rights is a valid link, and seems like the obvious wikipedia page to deem relevant for that phrase. And Bing gets it right. I have no reason to think it's some dark conspiracy, but it's certainly a pretty silly failure of their vaunted algorithms. Are there a lot of searches for common phrases w…
It’s not a conspiracy when emails leaked of employees discussing how they could put their thumb on the scales of sensitive political topics
Re: Why I’m done with Chrome
#694Earlier quoted context omitted.
Even as a middle school student I was amazed how “clean” they made the war seem. It was clear that the military had full control over the flow of information.
It was clear that the military had full control over the flow of information They learnt the lessons of the Falklands, where the BBC was happily informing the Argentinians that e.g. they were setting their bomb fuses wrong...
No they learned their lesson in Vietnam when they let this image get out, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phan_Thi_Kim_Phuc
Re: Why I’m done with Chrome
#695Chrome was always spying and collecting data from users since the very first day, every developer knew it that's why most of hackers and devs switched to Chromium. The open source edition which you can patch and modify to completely disable any communication with Google servers. Last I checked on GitHub there were tons of patches. Just switch to Chromium and problem is solved. Chrome is garbage.
Just today's HN top front page entry: https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium
Re: Why I’m done with Chrome
#696Earlier quoted context omitted.
AMP was what did it for me.
When Gmail came out, I said to people "as long as it stays on gmail.com then they can't use email scraping with your search history. No privacy issues." (or minmal ones) Within a few months of Gmail going public it changed from gmail.com to gmail.google.com or google.com/gmail or some such thing, and I knew instantly they had bamboozled everyone. That was years ago, the rest has been the expected trend.
Wasn't that somewhat related to the trademark dispute?
The domain gmail.com became unavailable in Germany due to trademark disputes [...]
Re: Why I’m done with Chrome
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I think it was after the US election results, senior leadership was discussing with employees what it could mean for them, and what Google's stance would be. Quite reasonable for a company that is open to diversity to reassure their diverse workforce when a president who is explicitly against diversity is elected. Typical Breitbart trying to create much ado about nothing, I've had similar "town hall" discussions in t…
I don't agree that the content of the leaked video[0] was reasonable. Google essentially controls information, so they have tremendous power. Their staff have openly called to subvert democracy, which I think most reasonable people find incredibly dangerous. And no, I don't like Trump. [0]: https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/09/12/leaked-video-googl...
Also from an investing perspective, it’s important to know if the senior leadership turns into a sniveling mess when facing uh...adversity in the form of the political horse they backed losing an election.
Re: Why I’m done with Chrome
#698Google started going down the path I would describe as an "evil" path years ago. I'm glad people are starting to notice. I used to be a huge Google advocate, up until about 2008. So many things have changed since then. Adsense was the first breach in trust for me, when they banned my account for no reason and ruined any chance of every monetizing my content...since they are basically a monopoly in that area. Getting…
> it sucks it leaked to nutty Brietbart and not a real new organization
Lack of reporting from others is no reason to believe Breitbart was first to know, e.g. https://mobile.twitter.com/jacknicas/status/1040014678263386...
> Doesn't that bother anyone?
I think it actually helps insulate Google from closer scrutiny of its monopoly position and deplorable business model. Why would any self-respecting country suffer an all-powerful ad-financed private Alphabet Agency? Because they think Evil is "on our side".
Re: Why I’m done with Chrome
#699Is it possible to get Netflix to run on Firefox or Chromium on Linux? Last time I checked I could only watch it in Chrome (Ubuntu).
Yes.
Re: Why I’m done with Chrome
#700Earlier quoted context omitted.
“Don’t forget not to be evil” I don’t believe the founders have had personality transplant, so why has google become evil?
It's not evil it's shareholder... value... optimisation ! I blame corporate on that one.
Seems like given enough time, any company will lose whatever value it tried to uphold in the past in favor of shareholders.
Once it reaches that point, every business optimization is in detriment of either the final user or society, quite often both.