whouStop using Brave Browser
if you useanything alphabet like chromium, then YOU are the problem.
I think it’s pretty unfair to put all of the blame on everyone who uses a chromium browser, considering that most people with a computer have no idea what the hell you are talking about.
Google Chrome is the single most popular web browser. Everyone’s work uses it, everyone’s school uses it, why would they possibly question it? And then they discover a new browser someone recommended - why would they look into “chromium” and what it all means? It’s just not reasonable to expect of nearly the entire population at this stage.
Take your anger out on the company and educate people.
from what i understand 99% of US mobile views is safari. NOBODY needs to usw Chrome.
Everyone uses it? ARE YOU DRUNK? give the firefox sub a visit and meet many people with backbones.
the problem laziness! one can educated themselves. chrome as much as apple users keep repeating the sentence “but it works so well”…for them…on the backs of others…hm, if that is not selfish i dunno what is. fuck em!
There’s nothing to understand. Google has over 60% market capture, safari has 20%. It’s not even close. And I never said they “need” to, I’m saying “why would they question it  when it’s everywhere? I completely agree that we should get off of it. You need to calm down.
ARE YOU DRUNK?
Ease off the throttle with the caps. I use FF.
I really don’t understand why people get so confrontational about this kind of thing. It’s a fucking web browser. I have a strong opinion about how they should be developed, but it has never been important to me to actually care what other people choose to use, especially not to the degree of lashing out at end users.
Educating people on their choices is good, but nobody should be getting this worked up over user choice.
Dude, touch some grass. You’re being way too aggro at someone explaining why a person might use a particular browser
99% of US mobile views is safari
Source: 🎱
Chris RemingtonPlease, be(e) nice when using Beehaw. Enjoy a three day vacation from here.
Bro, eat a snickers…
What do you mean by “on the backs of others”? Are you saying that then using chrome impacts others that don’t use chrome?
Link.wav [he/him]This is true, and there are people who are required to use it at work due to bad and outdated policies, but I do think it’s fair to say of anyone who does know better yet stubbornly persists in using Brave or Chrome.
I have seen people reply that they don’t care if they’re supporting an untrustworthy homophobic cryptobro because “everything is bad” or something like that. Those people are part of the problem. We’re spiraling toward a situation where internet is the new cable TV, under full control of two colossal corporate entities (Google and Microsoft), and I think it’s fair to expect more from those of us who do know better, but stubbornly persist for whatever reason.
Totally agree. Unfortunately the other dude is completely unhinged about this.
I agree, but I think it stems from the frustration we all feel that we’re losing our privacy and now we’re even at risk of losing the ability to choose our own services (with Google’s proposed DRM changes and the possibility of gutting certain services in Manifest v3).
It’s accurate that a very small slice of the pie are non-chromium users, and so I understand what you mean by “no one uses Firefox.” I’m not quite sure what to do to change that.
Also, I can understand why people get upset about this and might seem unhinged. For me, worst-case scenario is I simply no longer use the internet unless I’m required to for work; but for many people, the internet hosts their only comfortable spaces. For example, I’ve seen an interactive map where LGBT+ people post from where they live, and there are people living in the absolute middle of nowhere in rabidly conservative towns of less than 500. I can understand that the prospect of losing our privacy and the only safe spaces they’ve got must feel devastating.
Let me be very clear here: I am very passionate about privacy. I have been donating and volunteering for years with the EFF and other organizations to support net neutrality, fight terrible policies like SOPA/PIPA, etc.
All I said was why some people seem to “not care,” because the implication from other people is that it is malice or selfishness. It’s about education, that’s almost always what it’s about. And I’m advocating for educating people so they get off alphabet products. So I don’t understand why people are acting like I just don’t care or I am saying “Google Chrome is perfectly good.” I said nothing like that, in fact, I said quite the opposite.
Despite how many times I will end up making my position clear, I’m sure people will read past my comment and keep accusing me of not caring and lecture me about why it matters. Even though I agree lol
I totally get that, yeah. I understand.
I work for a large agency of the US government. We get the “choice” between chrome and edge.
I’ve worked for a similar employer! I’m supposed to use Chrome at my current employer, and it sucks. Zoom, too.
I’m sure part of it is that I’m just used to Firefox, but I don’t know how people choose to use Chrome. All of its “features” are creepy and stalkerish.
If you’ve found your way to the technology community on a federated lemmy instance, youre techy enough to take the blame for using chromium
He’s talking about literally everyone. Read his follow up to me.
BoozillaRight, but if I take your perfectly reasonable and mature position then I can’t prove to the web how edgy and superior I am!