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Why do you try to imply that a Web browser experience not built around making the user trackable most effectively, like it is by default with the big browsers,
by nsajko 7y ago
Why do you try to imply that a Web browser experience not built around making the user trackable most effectively, like it is by default with the big browsers, has to be inconvenient?
The way I use Chromium [0], is very convenient to me. The downsides are almost nonexistent, and the upsides are not just in privacy: it is convenient (albeit perhaps of questionable morality?) to not have to worry about newspaper article quotas; likewise with having more control over cookies and other browser data in the "simultaneous multiple sessions" model. For example having more than one user logged in to some Web site does not take any extra effort compared to just one user being logged in.
On the other hand there is a difference between "real users" and those willing to exploit the Unix programming environment/interface to its full potential, and that is required knowledge, or the willingness to get it. For example to use my script tb effectively one has to understand that "being logged in with a Web site" means temporarily storing appropriate data chunks gotten from the Web site (cookies) so that they are accessible to the browser and it could send them back to the server to authenticate.
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20484845 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20484845
- elefanten 7y agoYou answered your own question. The vast majority of users are not "willing to exploit the Unix programming environment." For the vast majority of people who do not already have Unix skills (or whatever), it is convenient not to have to learn them.