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Lol who is even using chrome still?
Edit: Yes guys I know, I am aware of the borderline monopoly Google has had on the browser space. My question should have been: Who is tech savvy and is using Google Chrome voluntarily?
I bet those numbers are inflated by work and school computers forcing it down your throat.
3.62 billion users as of March
...God damnit.
Well, at least one of those users might be my Flaresolverr machine with a Chrome user-agent header
They install it on my work laptop without my saying so. I uninstall it every time, and until they explicitly ask me to use it, I’m sticking with Firefox.
Ayy what's up twin.
"Oh our portals are only certified for Chrome. Firefox won't work."
I beg to differ.
Chrome's last genuine use died Aug 2024 when Puppeteer started supporting Firefox.
Tech savy people are ignorant as well. My colleagues are all into Meta, Google and stuff like that
It's the most popular browser by user base. It's today's Internet Explorer.
Damn, if only someone, anyone, had ever warned against using Chrome.
STOP👏👏USING👏👏CHROMEIUM👏👏BASED👏👏BROWSERS
Screaming that on lemmy is like running into a church and screaming about the "Wiles of satan"
You are literally preaching to the choir
The people willingly using a Google browser get what they get. This is a shining example of personal accountability.
most people are not aware of google’s shenanigans, and even less are aware that there are better alternatives
why not help people discover these alternatives instead of being an asshole?
Most people refuse to use these alternatives. Atleast in my cases.
People use the tools they have to get their tasks done. Not everyone wants to have the same weird hobbies we do.
People think Chrome is «the Internet».
Why the fuck is anyone still using chrome? Or windows for that matter. If it’s a work computer, whatever, I get it, but get that shit off of your personal devices.
It's your laptop? You need to try not installing chrome on your own devices.
Awe dang. I have a theory that the more we push away their data centers they will recoup it one cpu\gpu at a time at the user-end. This is testing that feasibility.
Oddly enough, Firefox never clicked for me but librewolf is dope.
The only browser I use for Lemmy
Still got firefox, mainly for making sense of youtube's garbage UI with my tangled cable of extensions whenever I happen to boot that shit up lol
Let's say I tried to show this to my brother in an attempt to make the boy degoogle and he went "Nah, I'm not a gigabite hoarder, they can have the 4 gigas."
weights.bin? So, what, Chrome got depressed and ate 40 cakes? That's terrible.
But don't worry, the model isn't used for any browser features users actually use, so it's just Google wasting petabytes of bandwidth to service a fraction of a percent of its userbase.
i never used Chrome(only Chromium) in years, i heard about this and its insane.
If not chrome, what is a good browser to use nowadays? I like Firefox but the last year I keep bumping in to websites that don't work so we'll on Firefox. Mostly web apps. So then what is left?
I stay away from sites and services that don't work well on Firefox. Firefox complies with open web standards, if a site doesn't run well on Firefox it implies that the operator is doing something fucky that you'd probably not be OK with.
Vivaldi is a productivity dream. Unfortunately it's built on chromium so it's not a complete break but it absolutely leaves every other browser in the dust in terms of how good it is. One of its best features is the ability to limit how much ram and CPU the browser as a whole uses or just certain sites. The amount of features it has is insane. Page tiling is my favourite one
Firefox has been fine. I've thought about switching to one of the cooler forks but I haven't gotten off my ass yet.