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A number of user stopping using these products wont change the slightest thing. We all encouraged our friends and family to ditch IE for chrome, and look where

A number of user stopping using these products wont change the slightest thing. We all encouraged our friends and family to ditch IE for chrome, and look where that got us. Legislation and regulation are the only fixes for these practices. The EC have a lot of kettles in the fire here - on multiple fronts. I trust that, although it will take time, "fairness" will prevail.

stkdump 6y ago
> We all encouraged our friends and family to ditch IE for chrome, and look where that got us. I didn't. I encouraged friends and family to ditch IE for Firefox and nowadays I encourage them to ditch Chrome for Firefox. I never cared that Chrome was a little faster for some time. One person that only uses the (very old and underpowered computer) for mail and printing documents I helped install Linux (not Ubuntu ;)) and since then they are much happier, because it doesn't get slower with each security update and needs less maintenance help than with Windows.
- danuker 6y ago
  > encourage them to ditch Chrome for Firefox You should probably start advising that they ditch Firefox for IceCat. https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/browsers.html https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/browsers.html
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  - stkdump 6y ago
    The last IceCat update is over a year ago. Might as well leave my front door open.
ernst_klim 6y ago
> We all encouraged our friends and family to ditch IE for chrome, and look where that got us. Antitrust entities bashed microsoft for shipping IE and look where that got us. If anything, it's worth keeping in mind that volumes of regulations written for big corps may indeed force them to behave, but are an impediment for tiny companies to enter. Corps like microsoft do call for regulations and copyright laws all the time, the have an army of lobbyists, they know that even without regulatory capture these extinguish competition.
zepto 6y ago
Legislation doesn’t solve software problems.
megous 6y ago
Actually if those users go to alternatives and offer they money and feature requests there, alternatives would improve.

stkdump 6y ago

> We all encouraged our friends and family to ditch IE for chrome, and look where that got us. I didn't. I encouraged friends and family to ditch IE for Firefox and nowadays I encourage them to ditch Chrome for Firefox. I never cared that Chrome was a little faster for some time. One person that only uses the (very old and underpowered computer) for mail and printing documents I helped install Linux (not Ubuntu ;)) and since then they are much happier, because it doesn't get slower with each security update and needs less maintenance help than with Windows.

danuker 6y ago
> encourage them to ditch Chrome for Firefox You should probably start advising that they ditch Firefox for IceCat. https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/browsers.html https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/browsers.html
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- stkdump 6y ago
  The last IceCat update is over a year ago. Might as well leave my front door open.

ernst_klim 6y ago

> We all encouraged our friends and family to ditch IE for chrome, and look where that got us. Antitrust entities bashed microsoft for shipping IE and look where that got us. If anything, it's worth keeping in mind that volumes of regulations written for big corps may indeed force them to behave, but are an impediment for tiny companies to enter. Corps like microsoft do call for regulations and copyright laws all the time, the have an army of lobbyists, they know that even without regulatory capture these extinguish competition.

zepto 6y ago

Legislation doesn’t solve software problems.

megous 6y ago

Actually if those users go to alternatives and offer they money and feature requests there, alternatives would improve.