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

Chrome built its market share on desktop up over many many years.

Yes, by making the best product. Then once they'd achieved the market donination necessary to not lose everyone, they changed that product from optimised for best user experience to optimised for maximum ad revenue.

I also think you're underestimating the number of people who couldn't care less

No, I am aware that they're sadly the majority. Hence why I specifically said "anyone who cares enough to know better"

preferences of us terminally online folks are not the preferences of the population at large.

You don't have to be "terminally online" (which is a slur invented by the wilfully ignorant to denigrate people with different interests and priorities than them, no matter how much you try to reclaim it) to care about basic privacy rights, but yeah, that sentence is otherwise correct, as I said earlier.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

No, I am aware that they’re sadly the majority. Hence why I specifically said “anyone who cares enough to know better”

I see, I thought you meant by that "anyone who knows about what Google is doing with personal data".

“terminally online” (which is a slur invented by the wilfully ignorant to denigrate people with different interests and priorities than them, no matter how much you try to reclaim it)

I use it self-deprecatingly. Calling it a "slur" is overblowing it, and even though it's used as an insult - I don't care. To be insulted by someone I have to value the person's opinion.