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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] 1 points 1 year ago

Chrome was released in 2008. It didn't take a market share right away. While a browser wasn't as big a part of daily life for a lot of people it was still a big part for a lot of people even outside of work.

On the other hand Windows had a much bigger market share for most of the time IE was the leading browser. It not being cross platform wasn't terribly relevant.

IE had a stranglehold on the internet. Even after chrome took over there were still a lot of sites that were only optimized/usable on IE. It is easily guilty of pretty much everything that is a modern complaint about chrome. You just didn't use it on a phone, but you also didn't have a handful of apps in place of a browser for various web sites/services.