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grnidone

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The one software you REFUSE to use no matter what...
« on: August 31, 2024, 04:56:47 PM »
In my new insurance career, I am told over and again that I HAVE to use Chrome to make insurance company websites work.

When they tell me "OK, are you using Chrome?" my answer to them is,"No. I don't use Chrome. I won't ever use Chrome, Chrome is a piece of crap and I won't use it."

There is usually a stunned silence after this.

What is the one software you refuse to use no matter what?

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ergophobe

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Re: The one software you REFUSE to use no matter what...
« Reply #1 on: September 01, 2024, 01:32:30 AM »
Anything by Meta.

"What's your WhatsApp number?"
"I dont have one."
"Oh, you should get one. It's free. Let me know when you have signed up."
"That will never happen. You can contact me via Signal, email or voice call."

I'm being tested though. I need to sell some stuff and people tell me that selling climbing gear locally, FB Marketplace is your only real option these days. Which, of course, is part of why I don't want to do it.

I would not say Chrome is a piece of crap. It is actually quite good software that is designed to help Google maintain its monopoly power. Interestingly, Edge is very good now too. If MS had come out with something like Edge the year before Chrome, there would be no Chrome.
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Re: The one software you REFUSE to use no matter what...
« Reply #2 on: September 01, 2024, 08:33:37 AM »
>Edge

The new Microsoft Edge (Chromium) is built on the same underlying technology as Google Chrome

>I need to sell some stuff and people tell me that selling climbing gear locally, FB Marketplace is your only real option these days.

I monitor this space daily and this is generally true. Marketplace has eviscerated Craigslist.  I have noticed that boomers, farmers, and blue collar types will still use Craigslist, so there are some target demographics that CL might hit.  But for climbing gear, it'll be FM.

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Brad

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Re: The one software you REFUSE to use no matter what...
« Reply #3 on: September 01, 2024, 08:47:53 AM »
>REFUSE

Yeah, anything by Meta and Zukisoft.

Chrome too, because it's a Google spyware platform. (Although I use Vivaldi which uses the Chrome rendering engine soo...)
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Re: The one software you REFUSE to use no matter what...
« Reply #4 on: September 01, 2024, 04:24:37 PM »
Quote from: rcjordan on September 01, 2024, 08:33:37 AM
The new Microsoft Edge (Chromium) is built on the same underlying technology as Google Chrome

Understood. But MS had the resources to build a good browser and if they had done it, it might be Chrome and/or Firefox that would be using the MS rendering engine.

Gates stepped down as CEO in 2000, just before IE6 launched and when MS controlled most of the desktop browser share. Though the big issue with IE was standards compatibility, to be fair, standards were in flux through that period and MS was pushing browsers forward. Chrome didn't launch until 2008

During that entire interval, MS launched one browser: IE7, and that not even until 2006. Then it was just ridiculous the crap they launched for the next several years under Ballmer's tenure (ended in 2014).

This is Ballmer's legacy. If MS had had a competent CEO from 2000 to 2014, I think Chrome would have less market share than Safari on desktop.
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