Dan Gillmor (@dangillmor@mastodon.social)
mastodon.world
It is essential to stop using Chrome. Under the pretense of saving users from third-party spyware, Google is creating an ecosystem in which Chrome itself is the spyware. Given Google's overwhelming presence in the browser market, this is unconscionable. We should all despise the ad-tech business, and have no sympathy for the companies getting whacked by Google's actions. But we should not permit one monopolist to replace them all. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/12/year-review-googles-corporate-paternalism-browser
  • piecat@lemmy.worldEnglish
    214·
    11 months ago

    Embrace extend extinguish

    It’s almost already too late at this point

    • mob@lemmy.worldEnglish
      311·
      11 months ago

      Not going to lie, I really hate when the internet gets a new favorite phrase. Destroys discussion on the subjects and feels like it’s a race for commenters to say the hit phrase.

      • R0cket_M00se@lemmy.worldEnglish
        165·
        11 months ago

        Lemmy is chock full of stupid people on the right team for the wrong reasons. They treat switching to Linux and FF the same way someone would declare they gave their life to Jesus Christ.

        Most of them can’t even explain why something is good or bad without resorting to the catch phrase of the day. “Enshittification”, “EEE”, “Chrome bad cuz capitalism or something, gib updoots.”

    • phillaholic@lemm.eeEnglish
      9·
      11 months ago

      It’s not. In the late 90s it was pretty much just IE after Netscape died. Mozilla came from the ashes.

      • R0cket_M00se@lemmy.worldEnglish
        31·
        11 months ago

        Literally. It was originally built on the Netscape engine before making Gecko and transitioning to that.