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This popped up a few times on gsuite apps while using firefox.

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[–] [email protected] 92 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I hate this prompt so much

But it's working, seeing how Chrome got almost a monopoly

Google, right now, in my country is doing an ad campaign on TV that says "chrome on iOS has integrated phishing warning on shady pages".

Uh... Safari has that from 15+ years at least... and all browsers on iOS are all safari with a different skin

[–] nogooduser 48 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The one that hate as a sysadmin is how Microsoft Defender is always telling me to disable Chrome features such as continue running in the background, third party cookies and password manager but never recommends those actions for Edge.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I've never had it say anything like, what freaky settings have you enabled?

[–] nogooduser 1 points 8 months ago

This is Microsoft Defender for Endpoint that is part of the Microsoft 365 admin portal. It looks for security issues like out of date software and insecure configurations.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

safari with a different skin

If your country is in the EU, this just changed (right?)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Yes and no because the dev would have to maintain two different browsers, one for the eu and one for the rest of the world. It would double the cost of development and testing for something that regular people won't even notice

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Chrome almost got a monopoly because for a time, it was legitimately better than most the competition. Now you have consumer inertia, and the things that make chrome dogshit are unfortunately not things that the average person cares out.

[–] stackPeek 51 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Of all the selling points they have, they decided to uses "With updates built-in"? Brother every browsers nowadays have that smh

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago

Not just browsers, almost every software has it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

But they not only have updates, they also have form filling, a password manager (wink wink), sync between devices and so many more basic features that Firefox has too

[–] RampantParanoia2365 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

What does that even mean? Is it from the future?

[–] nelly_man 3 points 8 months ago

If you ever use SQL Server Management Studio, you can experience the opposite. Whenever there's an update, you'll get a notification in the application, but to actually install it, you need to go to Microsoft's website to download the latest version and install it yourself. Chrome, on the other hand, updates itself upon restart without requiring anything special from the user.

As a software developer, I really like that part. It means that websites I work on only need to consider the features supported in the latest version of major browsers rather than the last several (as was the case with Internet Explorer).

So, it's nice and something that I remember really appreciating when Chrome was getting popular. But it's still a weird thing to brag about.

[–] teamevil 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

It means every time you use Chrome you get a pop-up about restarting Chrome.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

having updates is wild

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

With other browsers, you need to update them from time to time. Chrome one has all the updates already built in from day one, so you never need to update it. Isn’t that great. The devs at Google are so good that they decided to do all the updates at once so they never need to worry about updates ever again.

[–] Rooki 45 points 8 months ago (1 children)

They dont even have any good arguments anymore XD

[–] NateNate60 40 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Chrome! Now with the ability to view Web pages!

[–] Rooki 11 points 8 months ago

Chrome now with extra spyware and not being able to block ads and trackers! For the cheap price of your data.

[–] callmepk 35 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Me: no Google: okay proceed to broke Firefox compatibility in their products

[–] FrancisFeliz 19 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Simply avoid using Google services! instead of Google, use Duckduckgo or Startpage, replace YouTube with Invidious, Gmail with protonmail or self-hosted mail, and the office suite with LibreOffice.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Gmail with protonmail or self-hosted mail

Or just any paid mail service.

[–] callmepk 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Damn, I actually use them but uses Piped instead of Invidious and my self-hosted SearXNG for search engines

Also recommend Hyperpipe to use with piped to replace YouTube Music

Edit: Also on the phone, Collabora Office

[–] SendMePhotos 25 points 8 months ago (2 children)

.... Did chrome become IE?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 8 months ago

And IE became edge, which is chrome. We've come full circle.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago

Short answer: yes

[–] Carighan 23 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I remember when this was a huge thing back when Chrome was really new.

Other browsers always needed admin permissions to be installed and to be updated at the time. Chrome installed by-default in the user context, didn't even ask for an installation location (which sucked 😅) and could also update without adminstrative privileges.

Of course, nowadays this is entirely normal. But while it wasn't the the first software to do it back then, it was the first one where the average user say something being done without a popup about changed system settings.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I also recall seeing lots of installers that were infected with chrome. I guess that’s how it spread to so many computers.

[–] turbodrooler 18 points 8 months ago (1 children)

And it will keep popping up. Enjoy the rest of your life.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] turbodrooler 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Unfortunately can’t get away from it at work

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

it really updates a lot. also it does it very sneaky. i think on windows it uses a background service running as admin. it's rare it shows a tab that it updated. probably because they sneak stuff in like more tracking and pre downloaded google assets, so their pages load faster than the competition.

for comparison firefox sometimes prompts for admin permission to update and very often displays the "we added more bloat you will never use" tab.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

the most clicked No Thanks button in my environement.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Time to use the Element Picker feature of uBlock Origin.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

feel the pain of work environment where you cannot add any addons.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

this is why i hate school chromebooks

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

They have been popping up for years on gsuite

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

In other news, the brain is our most important organ, according to the brain.

[–] Dasus 14 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

One day the different parts of the body were having an argument to see which should be in charge.

The brain said "I do all the thinking so I'm the most important and I should be in charge."

The eyes said "I see everything and let the rest of you know where we are, so I'm the most important and I should be in charge."

The hands said "Without me we wouldn't be able to pick anything up or move anything. So I'm the most important and I should be in charge."

The stomach said "I turn the food we eat into energy for the rest of you. Without me, we'd starve. So I'm the most important and I should be in charge."

The legs said "Without me we wouldn't be able to move anywhere. So I'm the most important and I should be in charge."

Then the rectum said "I think I should be in charge."

All the rest of the parts said "YOU? You don't do anything! You're not important! You can't be in charge."

So the rectum closed up. After a few days, the legs were all wobbly, the stomach was all queasy, the hands were all shaky, the eyes were all watery, and the brain was all cloudy.

They all agreed that they couldn't take any more of this and agreed to put the rectum in charge.

The moral of the story: You don't have to be the most important to be in charge, just an asshole.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

I'm using Firefox so I'm already using one with all of those features, and the added benefit that it won't eat my RAM and spy on me

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Brawndo, it's got what plants crave!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

It's got updates!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Using librewolf, this can go screw off

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

I recommend using an ad blocker and then you won't see it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

🎵We built it shitty🎵

🎵We built it shitty on spies and lies🎵

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

watches as the EU does nothing to rein in Google for worse abuse than MS ever tried.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I've never seen that using windows 10 pro and firefox