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With the number of people concerned about privacy, it is a wonder why chrome is even popular.

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[–] 7heo@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 year ago (30 children)

With the number of people concerned about privacy, it is a wonder why chrome is even popular.

They aren't "concerned about privacy", they are "concerned about privacy for the same price". And they are real cheapskates.

Note: for those who lack the knowledge, the "price" of a free product comes as an overall bugs / features ratio, where "bugs" and "features" are respectively defined as any undesirable / desirable behavior in the use case for the software.

[–] Gremour@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago (26 children)

I wonder if you deem Firefox buggy or having not enough features?

Using Firefox since it came out and never experienced any troubles.

[–] dekatron@lemmy.fmhy.ml 7 points 1 year ago (11 children)

Google Meet's background blur and visual filters do not work on Firefox. MS Teams straight up says that Firefox is not a supported browser. These decisions might be intentional on the part of Google and Microsoft, but to the average user of these popular products, it looks like a Firefox problem.

These decisions might be intentional on the part of Google and Microsoft

Well, yes - it's profitable for these corporations to portray Firefox as buggy and their own browser as superior. Change your user agent to one of a Chromium-based browser and watch how your "unsupported" Firefox suddenly works correctly in most cases.

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