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[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 33 points 1 day ago (4 children)

STOP👏👏USING👏👏CHROMEIUM👏👏BASED👏👏BROWSERS

[–] trinsec@piefed.social 1 points 16 hours ago

What's wrong with chromium based browsers? Just curious. What about Vivaldi?

Screaming that on lemmy is like running into a church and screaming about the "Wiles of satan"

You are literally preaching to the choir

[–] ThunderQueen@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

There is degoogled chromium for pcs. I dont mean brave. I mean literally "degoogled chromium"

i use it for when certain web apps refuse to work on firefox or librewolf

[–] Mwa@thelemmy.club 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I love Steam's built in browser(its useful) and Gmod's built in browser though :(
actually lets narrow down the problem with Non-Chromium, Almost all of them arent designed for embedding into apps or isnt ready for production/does not have all web features.

[–] Mwa@thelemmy.club 5 points 1 day ago

i never used Chrome(only Chromium) in years, i heard about this and its insane.

Awe dang. I have a theory that the more we push away their data centers they will recoup it one cpu\gpu at a time at the user-end. This is testing that feasibility.

[–] Syndication@lemmy.today 62 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (18 children)

Lol who is even using chrome still?

Edit: Yes guys I know, I am aware of the borderline monopoly Google has had on the browser space. My question should have been: Who is tech savvy and is using Google Chrome voluntarily?

I bet those numbers are inflated by work and school computers forcing it down your throat.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 47 points 2 days ago (2 children)

3.62 billion users as of March

[–] Syndication@lemmy.today 12 points 2 days ago

...God damnit.

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[–] Doug@piefed.social 28 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They install it on my work laptop without my saying so. I uninstall it every time, and until they explicitly ask me to use it, I’m sticking with Firefox.

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[–] tired_n_bored@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Tech savy people are ignorant as well. My colleagues are all into Meta, Google and stuff like that

[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 2 days ago (6 children)

About 68% of the world according to this.

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[–] SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

People who are forced to use it because web developers have abandoned non chrome based browsers in their testing and validation.

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[–] Mac@mander.xyz 41 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Damn, if only someone, anyone, had ever warned against using Chrome.

[–] NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 24 points 2 days ago (9 children)

Why the fuck is anyone still using chrome? Or windows for that matter. If it’s a work computer, whatever, I get it, but get that shit off of your personal devices.

[–] JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Because I'm lazy and sometimes want to play battlefield

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Don't get me started on EA 😩 probably the hardest part of not buying EA stuff is missing out on my beloved BF.

Ah well try to enjoy it for the both of us

[–] JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm terrible at it and hate myself for owning it

That’s Battlefield, baby!

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[–] schwim@piefed.zip 31 points 2 days ago (2 children)

The people willingly using a Google browser get what they get. This is a shining example of personal accountability.

[–] carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)

most people are not aware of google’s shenanigans, and even less are aware that there are better alternatives

why not help people discover these alternatives instead of being an asshole?

[–] MeowerMisfit817@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

Most people refuse to use these alternatives. Atleast in my cases.

[–] linuxPIPEpower@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

People use the tools they have to get their tasks done. Not everyone wants to have the same weird hobbies we do.

[–] kilgore_trout@feddit.it 5 points 1 day ago

People think Chrome is «the Internet».

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

weights.bin? So, what, Chrome got depressed and ate 40 cakes? That's terrible.

That's as many as four 10s!

[–] thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] liimnok@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago

Oddly enough, Firefox never clicked for me but librewolf is dope.

[–] FosterMolasses@leminal.space 3 points 1 day ago

The only browser I use for Lemmy

Still got firefox, mainly for making sense of youtube's garbage UI with my tangled cable of extensions whenever I happen to boot that shit up lol

[–] SaintNectar@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Linux+grapheneOS to remove those spywares

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Why Linux + graphene instead of Linux + GNU?

[–] neo_canon@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

Because Java runs everywhere

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 16 points 2 days ago

It's your laptop? You need to try not installing chrome on your own devices.

[–] MeowerMisfit817@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Let's say I tried to show this to my brother in an attempt to make the boy degoogle and he went "Nah, I'm not a gigabite hoarder, they can have the 4 gigas."

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[–] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They called it weights.bin? That is trojan level of skullduggery.

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