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.
Given Google's overwhelming presence in the browser market, this is unconscionable.
We should all despise the ad-tech business, and have no sympathy for the companies getting whacked by Google's actions. But we should not permit one monopolist to replace them all.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/12/year-review-googles-corporate-paternalism-browser
Ironically, in the past year, one of my employers specifically disallowed Firefox due to a CVE, saying that we were to use Chrome. A Cybersecurity professional once told me that Firefox is frowned upon because of CVEs.
A Cybersecurity professional once told me that Firefox is frowned upon
This has been rampant for years now.
There was a massive movement years ago to get every user on Chrome.
Even going so far as to replace all appearances of IE with Chrome, then change the Chrome desktop icon to the IE icon, then tell the users it’s a new better version of IE.
There was a huge push by a lot of IT and tech based people to get behind and push promotion of Chrome over Firefox and IE. FF had its issues at the time and seemingly everyone trusted Google to no end (ashamedly myself included).
I’m gonna say this really started to happen ~2010 or so.
I wish I could find some of the old Reddit threads and memeing that happened surrounding it all.
Ironically, in the past year, one of my employers specifically disallowed Firefox due to a CVE, saying that we were to use Chrome. A Cybersecurity professional once told me that Firefox is frowned upon because of CVEs.
This has been rampant for years now.
There was a massive movement years ago to get every user on Chrome. Even going so far as to replace all appearances of IE with Chrome, then change the Chrome desktop icon to the IE icon, then tell the users it’s a new better version of IE.
Are you alluding to Edge becoming a chromium fork? Or did some orgs really do this weird icon trickery?
Not orgs,…exactly.
There was a huge push by a lot of IT and tech based people to get behind and push promotion of Chrome over Firefox and IE. FF had its issues at the time and seemingly everyone trusted Google to no end (ashamedly myself included).
I’m gonna say this really started to happen ~2010 or so.
I wish I could find some of the old Reddit threads and memeing that happened surrounding it all.
Things like this were everywhere:
https://ny02208580.schoolwires.net/Page/5238
^^^Mobile screenshot for posterity^^^
What is a CVE?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Vulnerabilities_and_Exposures
not being a jerk, just in a hurry
May I ask what specific CVE and when your professional told you that?
I don’t recall the CVE, it was likely months ago, and I wasn’t in a position to argue.
The Cyber guy said that a few years ago (3?).