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It's interesting to think about, that the two ways to prevent the misuse of your data would either be total privacy or total transparency. I was mostly joking,
by spijdar 6y ago
It's interesting to think about, that the two ways to prevent the misuse of your data would either be total privacy or total transparency.
I was mostly joking, since I can't imagine anyone buying a Google Chromebook in an attempt to avoid Google. But, for the sake of argument, I do think it's genuinely straightforward.
The internal details are slightly complicated, but from a user's perspective, all you have to do is press one button from inside settings, open a terminal, and type "sudo apt install firefox".
That's not as easy as downloading a setup.exe file, but I think it's pretty straightforward. ChromeOS will even associate URLs with Firefox, if you choose. Then, even if you open Chrome, it will redirect all links back into Firefox.
Just a small technical tangent of my own. :D