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If you care about privacy, you really shouldn’t be using a browser that was created by a company that makes its money by learning everything about you and reselling it to the highest bidder.
> and reselling it to the highest bidder. This isn't a thing that Google does
If you care about privacy, you really shouldn’t be using a browser that was created by a company that makes its money by learning everything about you and reselling it to the highest bidder.
> and reselling it to the highest bidder. This isn't a thing that Google does
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> and reselling it to the highest bidder. This isn't a thing that Google does
It sorta is, via ad targeting.
I just don't understand how so many people in the HN community, who are so vocal about privacy, turn around and use Chrome. Don't feed the beast.
I just don't understand how so many people in the HN community, who are so vocal about privacy, turn around and use Chrome. The amount of blind trust that people - including very technical people - gift to Google is rather shocking.
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I have been using Firefox since version 1.0. I don't understand the desire to use google's browser. However, why would even trying view secure data in your web-browser... Not even just Chrome. Things may get cached ect... Although, Mozilla has been doing things that I find annoying at times. Like adding pocket ect... Little Rant Although, I have looked at some of the other forks. What I find more depressing is how fe…
"It's a sign that web standards are getting too complicated." Is there precedent for standards significantly simplifying over time, or do they always tend to get more and more complex?
HTML5 rather than XHTML, Markdown vs. HTML or LaTeX, HTML, originally, vs. SGML or Sun's ... proprietary hypertext system (Vue?).
Arguably, replacement of much office suite software with Web technologies.
Multics -> Unix.
I just don't understand how so many people in the HN community, who are so vocal about privacy, turn around and use Chrome. Don't feed the beast.
The same reason that so many of them continue working for companies that blatantly violate principles they claim are important to them (privacy, open-source, anti-advertising, etc.): It's easy to be vocal about principles, but when it comes down to it, very few people are actually willing to impact their own comfort or convenience to truly follow them. It's simpler to just come up with a reasonable-seeming justificat…
*method of survival.
You can "stand up for your principles", or you can not be an ideologue, survive, and live to fight another day making progress and positive change along the way. Full stop boycott stops nothing. Changing from within is the most effective. Instead of posting shame-inducing posts like this, labeling people and assuming the worst, try assuming the best, encourage them to take actions to increase privacy and increase security. I work in that field, and when my own principles are violated, I speak out. I guarantee that changes more than people shaming others on social media. Advertising and Data collection have about as much as a chance of stopping as world governments agreeing to stop producing bullets, so let's try to make it as ethical as we can.
presumably she had "automatically translate" on...
I've really tried to use Firefox... Chrome just runs so much smoother, especially for media.
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"It's a sign that web standards are getting too complicated." Is there precedent for standards significantly simplifying over time, or do they always tend to get more and more complex?
What frequently happens is that a simplified alternative appears. HTML5 rather than XHTML, Markdown vs. HTML or LaTeX, HTML, originally, vs. SGML or Sun's ... proprietary hypertext system (Vue?). Arguably, replacement of much office suite software with Web technologies. Multics -> Unix.