• over_clox@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    16
    arrow-down
    3
    ·
    1 year ago

    Then don’t use Google. I’m slowly but surely working towards degoogling myself. Not there quite yet, but I’m working on it.

    https://dispostable.com

    ^ Free anonymous email, for the B/S that asks for an email when they got no business with one.

    • scutiger@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      23
      ·
      1 year ago

      The whole point is that non-Chromium browsers might lose functionality on a significant portion of major websites. Imagine if Amazon, Netflix, and Youtube suddenly stopped working in Firefox. How many Firefox users would tolerate that?

        • MaggiWuerze@feddit.de
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          1
          arrow-down
          1
          ·
          1 year ago

          Sure, because the average user won’t think his Firefox to be broken and just switch to chrome altogether. Chrome has no issue with that site after all. Once enough pages have it even most technically inclined people will probably not want to constantly juggle between browsers, just to use their banking site or whatever.

        • scutiger@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          20
          ·
          1 year ago

          Ok, but you can see how perhaps other people might care, right? Like you’re not a complete psychopath, right?

          • over_clox@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            3
            arrow-down
            13
            ·
            1 year ago

            Not my problem you people fell into the corporate trap. I saw it coming as far back as 2011.

            • opt9@feddit.ch
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              3
              arrow-down
              5
              ·
              1 year ago

              I like your tude dude!

              Everyone is whining while still holding on to big corps balls.

        • Rouxibeau@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          15
          ·
          1 year ago

          I don’t care about x thing, it doesn’t affect me

          Then next year

          Why are they killing “y thing that affects me”

          Attitudes like that are a big factor in our current culture war.

          • over_clox@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            2
            arrow-down
            5
            ·
            1 year ago

            I’m using actual solid services established in the late 90’s that still work today. I have terabytes of data stored, and it’s not through Google or iCloud.

            Don’t care, I already predicted half of this crap over a decade ago. Nobody wants to listen to me though.

            Oh well, not my problem.

    • grue@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      8
      ·
      1 year ago

      Your recommendation isn’t wrong, but it’s a mistake to think problems like this can be solved with a mere boycott. This absolutely requires consumer protection legislation.

    • stravanasu@lemmy.ca
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      4
      ·
      1 year ago

      Funny, note that that website uses DRM content. I have DRM disabled on Firefox and when I visit that site I get two DRM warnings.