‘The illusion of free choice’
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‘The illusion of free choice’
This meme had been posted on r/pcmasterrace, and I could see it on Teddit’s front page today. The comments teem with Firefox cheerleaders. Nobody has once mentioned Pale Moon. 
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Re: ‘The illusion of free choice’
In a similar vein to 'teeming with Firefox cheerleaders'... there is a one particular exceedingly dull, boring, and arrogant 'chrome-boy' troll who infects many of the Ghacks comment threads... which are otherwise often a useful addition to Ghack's articles.
I suppose the fact he regularly aggravates other people is the aim of the game... 'never feed a troll' being the sage old advice.
That said, must take a warped mindset to promote Alphabet/Google/Chrome... to want to be spied-on, profiled, filter-bubbled, and have your every browser click analysed, packaged, and sold on to unknown 3rd parties for unknown reasons... worse still if you walk around with an Android tracker phone on your person.
I suppose the fact he regularly aggravates other people is the aim of the game... 'never feed a troll' being the sage old advice.
That said, must take a warped mindset to promote Alphabet/Google/Chrome... to want to be spied-on, profiled, filter-bubbled, and have your every browser click analysed, packaged, and sold on to unknown 3rd parties for unknown reasons... worse still if you walk around with an Android tracker phone on your person.
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Re: ‘The illusion of free choice’
Well, the above is not quite true, but close. There are two comments about Pale Moon on there. Problem is, you have to scroll almost all the way down the elongated page to see them.
Here is the link to the reference to Pale Moon.
https://teddit.net/r/pcmasterrace/comme ... /jitnvfv#c
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Re: ‘The illusion of free choice’
They should not forget that the Firefox logo is 95% Chrome too.
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Re: ‘The illusion of free choice’
Not just the logo at this point
Peak Firefox was 3.5.2.
Peak Firefox was 3.5.2.
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Re: ‘The illusion of free choice’
Long story of yet another of Google's attempts to 'own' the internet... whatever happened to the US' Antitrust Acts?
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"Google promised to create a better, faster web for media companies with a new standard called AMP. In the end, it ruined the trust publishers had in the internet giant."
https://www.theverge.com/23711172/googl ... rs-lawsuit
Speed Trap
"Google promised to create a better, faster web for media companies with a new standard called AMP. In the end, it ruined the trust publishers had in the internet giant."
https://www.theverge.com/23711172/googl ... rs-lawsuit
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Re: ‘The illusion of free choice’
If you recall Google got off with like 4 years planned delay before their antitrust stuff goes to court. that's a long time to freewheel.
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