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If you value privacy, ditch Chrome and switch to Firefox now (www.fastcompany.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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With the number of people concerned about privacy, it is a wonder why chrome is even popular.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Chrome is everywhere and everything is built on it or optimized for it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Okay, but we had that same issue in 2010 before Chrome started to become mainstream. And before that, IE had to compete with Netscape.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Exactly. It become the current Internet Explorer.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

This browser monoculture stuff will surely bite our asses someday. I just hope Firefox (and its derivatives) would still exist to take chromium refugees when Google show its true color in the future.