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[–] DONTBANTHISACCOUNT@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I use chrome on my mobile device... Is that bad?

[–] BaroqueInMind@kbin.social 51 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Might as well take shits with the door unlocked; same level of exposing yourself.

[–] Nioxic@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

And ads. Ads everywhere.

[–] quicksand@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

About Chrome, or the shitting?

[–] quicksand@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

The shitting with the door open. That's why you can't get married, dad. ( Sorry for the shotty Stepbrothers reference)

[–] KLISHDFSDF@lemmy.ml 30 points 1 year ago

In a way yes. You're giving Google (via an increased browser market share) the power to decide the direction of the web. Their interests as a corporate organization are not aligned with yours, so they will make decisions to your detriment if they have to.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

Just use Firefox. Mozilla isn’t good but it’s not evil

[–] moitoi@feddit.de 8 points 1 year ago

I don't know how people browse the web on mobile with ads taking half of the screen.

[–] provomeister@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's not really bad per se, it's the default on most Android devices these days. The problem is that almost all modern browsers are Chromium-based which give Google a lot of power to implement changes (see manifest v3 & web DRM). Personally, I'm trying to slowly reduce my usage of Google products. I'm using Firefox on desktop and a mix of DDG+Fennec on my phone.

Thank You! I'll look into DDG n Fennec.