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That was the time I started actively avoiding Google services, and I still do. This incident is a good reminder of why I do so.
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Worked for me. Switched to FF because I just can't trust Chrome anymore. FF feels like a breath of fresh air.
Yup, same. Switched to ff and bing. Was surprisingly frictionless. Next week I'll be off gmail too. Up yours google. The week after, I'm getting rid of my android phone. I'm a high school IT teacher and have some influence over hundreds of students each year. I've already started to sprinkle in some discussion about privacy and will be sure to inform my students about the issues. Of course I won't brow beat my studen…
Are they trying to promote Firefox or something? Chrome seems to be trying quite hard to annoy people enough to actually uninstall it.
Only a small fraction of Chrome's user base will notice, and not even all of those will care. There are likely tech-savvy people reading this on Chrome 69 right now.
Also, I find Firefox UI sluggish to use, relative to Chrome UI.
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Get the tree style tabs plugin, it's an essential.
But its kinda useless because you can't remove the tab toolbar? Or so it seems to me.
Chrome 69 on Mac puts Close/Minimise/Maximise buttons in an additional bar when in fullscreen mode. It's super irritating to see an additional bar when you move mouse to top of screen. I have downgraded to Chrome 68 and disabled auto updates. https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/chrome/D0dB6j...
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Yup, same. Switched to ff and bing. Was surprisingly frictionless. Next week I'll be off gmail too. Up yours google. The week after, I'm getting rid of my android phone. I'm a high school IT teacher and have some influence over hundreds of students each year. I've already started to sprinkle in some discussion about privacy and will be sure to inform my students about the issues. Of course I won't brow beat my studen…
What will you replace gmail with?
Thought the whole point of a private tab was to completely isolate a browsing session, now you can never be certain your Google credentials are not being shared in these private sessions or even contaminate my non-private sessions.
Going to have to use another browser for my work sessions from now on.
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Not just that but also risk a big fine; "regular" GDPR violations (when warnings are ignored) can be tens of millions, anti-trust fines can be half a billion easily. The EU compensates for tax loopholes via big fines.
The best way to communicate "stop doing stupid shit" to google is not use their services/applications when they do stupid shit. Losing market share/customers is far more impactful than any (currently possible) fines.
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Worked for me. Switched to FF because I just can't trust Chrome anymore. FF feels like a breath of fresh air.
Can I import my Chrome passwords into FF?