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It is essential to stop using Chrome. Under the pretense of saving users from third-party spyware, Google is creating an ecosystem in which Chrome itself is the spyware. (mastodon.world)

submitted 10 months ago by Live_Let_Live to c/technology

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[–] corus_kt 78 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I work at a small company - absolutely everything from work macros, accounts and shortcuts are all intertwined in Chrome, they've been using it like that for ten years - it'd be faster for me to find a new job then to unclog that mess from the entire office. I still installed firefox for personal use though.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 10 months ago (1 children)

in my previous job we were allowed to install some old version of firefox through the companys own portal. but we couldn't access internet with it because "firefox is vulnerable". they use google suite so chrome was the default browser, but edge worked too and even IE...

[–] deweydecibel 41 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Most companies now are being shepherded into Microsoft 365's walled garden by their security teams. Edge is the only "secure" browser now, Teams the only "secure" chat app, Microsoft Authenticator (specifically Microsoft's app, not DUO or anything else) is the only "secure" way to implement MFA, etc.

It's genuinely sad how many security professionals have been shanghaied into Microsoft salesmen.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago

By secure they mean "the only way we can easily see everything you do"

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

We had IT people in at our shop to migrate us over to 365. They wanted me to install Microsoft Authenticator on my personal phone, so I said no. They were able to bypass MFA to sign me up.

I asked them what would happen if someone didn't own a smartphone (crazy I know), they had no answer for me. They basically just looked at me like I asked them the square root of pi.

[–] AFKBRBChocolate 3 points 10 months ago

That's actually a problem where I work. There are people who carry a flip phone because they don't want a smart phone. IT gives them a hard token for 2FA.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

I was in the same boat. Selenium with gecko driver was a pretty simple swap, just needed to Ctrl f replace a few things.