With the number of people concerned about privacy, it is a wonder why chrome is even popular.
Most people aren’t concerned about privacy outside of places like here and Reddit.
With Chrome killing ad blocking, they’ll quickly care
Hmmm, on the bright side, with lemmy going mainstream maybe some of this culture (including privacy and FOSS) becomes more and more openly discussed.
As much as I love Lemmy I don’t see it going mainstream :/
It’s too weird for the general userThen why are you here “Generic User 1234”?
I’m sorry, I don’t know if “general user” means what I think it means. English is not my first language.
What I meant was that most people who use the internet and social media on a regular basis aren’t exactly nerdy/tech-savvy. So as soon as you start talking to them about federated instances and whatnot, they lose interest.
I mean I love Lemmy but I don’t see it going mainstream :/
It’s too weird for the general userThe irony of this comment duplicating 😅 but yeah you’re right, there needs to be a lot of streamlining first
jsjajsj yeah, Jerboa froze on me so I had to retype the comment. I didn’t realise it had already gone through.
I dunno. Lemmy isn’t all that weird outside the first little bit of choosing an instance and signing up for communities. Everything since that has felt extremely normal to me. Some more thought about that and a good instance onboarding workflow can be implemented, that seems like a solvable problem.
I completely agree, I don’t find it difficult at all. But I have already tried to recommend it to a couple of friends and just having to go through those first steps was enough for them not to want to use Lemmy.
How about Brave? Not a big fan of Chrome but a long term Brave user I am. Filters a lot of things out.
I have been using Brave on both Linux and mobile for a while now. It seems to work fine as a backup browser for casual browsing. For more private browsing, I prefer Firefox forks.
Also, the recently Brave Origin (Nightly) was released. It’s the same Brave browser that now has own telemetry (crypto, Leo AI, etc.) removed. It’s free for Linux users and costs 59.99$ to buy for mobile and Win / Mac etc. users.
You can use a terminal browser a la lynks2 or w3m
I use Vivaldi, which isn’t perfect, but I need tab grouping in some form. Firefox’s solutions for tab groups are meh at best
TOR browser is built off of Firefox and is even more private.
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I only ever tried Chrome on school computers but it was useless, always kept crashing.
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I’ve been a Firefox user for ages on all my devices and I have no idea what you’re talking about
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You’re getting downvoted for an opinion, but I’m upvoting you because I actually want to know the downsides of switching, because I’m considering it myself. Is there any truth to what you’re saying, or do people just not like you saying something bad about firefox? I don’t mind downsides to switching, I’d just like to be aware of them first so I don’t get surprised and frustrated.
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The way it’s seeming after reading some of these replies is I may end up just having both browsers installed and swapping depending on what I wanna do… Not ideal, but I think it’d be better than all Chrome all the time. Thanks so much for the info
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My guess would be that calling it a weird buggy mess that freezes all the time does not line up with most people’s experience.
I’ve been using Firefox since before it was Firefox and have no idea what he’s talking about.
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