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submitted 1 year ago by cyborganism@lemmy.ca to c/privacy@lemmy.ca

I'm fucking done with Chrome. Fuck this.

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[-] DumbAceDragon@sh.itjust.works 70 points 1 year ago

"To stop everyone else from stealing your data, let us steal it for them!"

It's like trying to stop a fire by committing arson.

[-] Pregnenolone@lemmy.world 50 points 1 year ago

It's like trying to stop a fire by committing arson

I get the point you’re trying to make, but we regularly actually start fires to prevent fires.

[-] DumbAceDragon@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 year ago

That's true. Maybe I should've picked my analogy better lol.

[-] superguy@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Big reason why analogies are fallacies: they're never a 1:1 representation of the subject and hand and usually serve to derail the conversation by making people debate the merits of the analogy.

[-] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

A forest fire can’t burn the leaves you already burned a few months ago.

[-] SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

🤣🤣🤣 beat me to it, like almost literally verbatim what I was going to say.

[-] bob_lemon@feddit.de 7 points 1 year ago

Bonus points for doing that as the single largest advertisement company in the world.

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