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There's more to being user friendly than having a dumbed down UI and being technically correct. Helping corporations spy on users is definitely not user friend
by jlarocco 8y ago
There's more to being user friendly than having a dumbed down UI and being technically correct.
Helping corporations spy on users is definitely not user friendly, and Chrome is by far the worst offender there. Saying, "nobody cares," because they're ignorant that it's going on is no excuse, either.
- PhasmaFelis 8y agoUser-friendliness is usually understood as being about usability and interface design. Spyware-riddled software may be shitty, and that should be called out, but it's orthogonal to user-friendliness. Edit: You seem to disagree. Google "user-friendly" and realize that I'm not defending Chrome.
- drb91 8y agoJust because corporate language doesn’t include any way of expressing representing consumer and user interests outside of what can be represented in a transaction doesn’t mean it isn’t worth expressing.
- PhasmaFelis 8y agoThere's plenty of ways to express it. Call it exploitative, dishonest, money-grubbing, soulless. If you instead call it "non-user-friendly," expect people to be confused, because that's not what "user-friendly" means.
- geofft 8y agoThat may all be true but I'm really unsure what that has to do with user-friendliness in the way described. The argument was an attempt to rebut my claim that Chrome is trying to do the best job possible of rendering pages isn't true because Chrome isn't user-friendly. If their goal is to spy on users and have a dumbed-down UI, isn't it all the more important that pages successfully render, so that the sheeple keep using it?