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What happened to Google Chrome since 2008 (contrachrome.com)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by quickpen to c/longreads
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It used to be a user friendly lightweight browser.

Now it’s hardly recognizable from its launch. It’s heavy bloated and slurps up user data into invasive user profiles.

Those individual user profiles are rolled up into buckets of collective thoughts ripe for analysis and manipulation.

Can I get this group of people to buy my product? To read my book? To vote the way I want them to? To pay attention to this national issue? To ignore that one?

If you value privacy, ditch Chrome and switch to Firefox now in c/[email protected]
[–] quickpen 3 points 1 year ago

Firefox has dark mode.

3 browsers in c/[email protected]
[–] quickpen 1 points 1 year ago

This is the way

[Vote] Which banner do you prefer? in c/agora
[–] quickpen 2 points 1 year ago

8

Modern life is so tied with smartphones living without it is increasingly becoming harder in c/[email protected]
[–] quickpen 5 points 1 year ago

True, school is nice in that it forces you to hang out with your peers, and that isn’t really emulated later in life. But I don’t think that’s the point.

The point is that it’s just tougher to have non distracted conversations. Or even non distracted periods of time hanging out.

It just feels awkward when someone is sitting there texting with someone else in front of you. Or just looking something up on their phone “really quick”, and then is MIA from the conversation for five minutes.

Second largest Lemmy instance preemptively un-friends Facebook in c/[email protected]
[–] quickpen 2 points 1 year ago

If you’re creating an instance that will not federate with corporate instances, then I would love to join.

joining the fediverse to bitch about reddit is the same as going on a date, and spending the whole night talking about your ex in c/[email protected]
[–] quickpen 1 points 1 year ago

Let me know when you do so I can subscribe to your stream of silliness and entertainment :)

It gets better the longer it runs in c/[email protected]
[–] quickpen 14 points 2 years ago

Ohhhh, so there isn’t anything crazy going on here.

It’s just literally running that function and tallying up how accurate it is as a prime number checker.

…and it gets more accurate the longer it runs. Okay, I see now. Thanks, lol.

It gets better the longer it runs in c/[email protected]
[–] quickpen 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I don’t get it. Can someone Explain Like I’m 5?

There is a function that always returns false, and then a bunch of random output, and one failed?

Is this like another weird quirk in the JavaScript VM or something? Lol?

Wow! It actually makes sense! in c/standardization
[–] quickpen 40 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I actually agree that the metric system has nice round numbers, but this graphic is a hilarious rebuttal to the first one that just draws pictures to make their preferred system look like it fits into the pretty pictures.

Two can play at that game, lol.

Apple joins opposition to encrypted message app scanning in c/[email protected]
[Discussion] Should we defederate exploding-heads.com? (Closing arguments) in c/agora
[–] quickpen -3 points 2 years ago

“ Although this could be considered a point in favor of defederation, it actually means even if we vote to remain federated, people have a great alternative in lemmy.world where they can still participate in our communities and simultaneously be protected from exploding-heads.”

This seems like a great compromise.

If you feel so strongly that you’d like to continue to interact with everyone here, and you don’t want to see stuff from another particular instance, then this is a great option.

I vote no action is needed here on this instance.

The Password Game in c/[email protected]
[–] quickpen 3 points 2 years ago

Same, typed all of the countries I could think of and then noped out.

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