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  • Mountaineer@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.ml"~~Don't~~ be evil"
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    1 year ago

    This whole episode is giving me flashbacks to the ActiveX days.

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    The tyranny of the default.

    “Here mum, I’ve installed Firefox for you, it’s better than Chrome in every way!”
    “My knitting circle website doesn’t work, I can’t download patterns, it says I need Chrome”

    Internet Explorer was effectively abandon-ware for a decade after Microsoft used their OS pseudo-monopoly to crush Netscape.
    It took another tech giant abusing THEIR monopoly to relegate IE to the trash heap it should have already been on.



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    1 year ago

    So you won’t use your banks website?
    Or your utilities (gas/water/electricity/internet)?
    You won’t let your kids use the portal at their school for submitting assignments?
    Your government sites for renewing your drivers license or scheduling hard refuse pickup?

    I can think of lots of reasons that will force me to have chrome installed if this goes ahead.