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If this won’t lead to people ditching Chrome, I am afraid nothing ever will…
by dotcoma 3y ago
If this won’t lead to people ditching Chrome, I am afraid nothing ever will…
- goku12 3y agoIt won't. But not because this is desirable. All these anti-user measures are small and gradual steps that regular folks won't immediately recognize. Something about a frog and boiling water.
- shiroiuma 3y agoWhat's funny is that, in reality, frogs aren't that stupid: they'll jump out of the water as soon as it gets too hot for them. Humans aren't this smart, however.
- TheCapeGreek 3y agoBeyond that, how many ordinary non-techie people are ever checking the actual changes of their app? I'd bet basically never unless a changelog page opens immediately after the update. And that's not exactly going to be worded in an understandable way like "we're doing this to screw over your ability to do what you want on the web".
- dun44 3y agoBroken adblocking is immediately visible to anyone, including non-tech people.
- phendrenad2 3y agoThe frog boiling analogy doesn't work long-term though, because humans don't live forever, and new ones keep replacing the old ones. A new crop of college kids is going to look at Chrome and say "nope"
- saurik 3y agoOr they look at Chrome and not realize it could ever have been better, as they never experienced such.
- phendrenad2 3y agoHard to imagine someone would switch from Edge/Safari to Chrome without investigating other alternatives like Brave/Firefox.
- cpeterso 3y agoOr the college kids are acclimated to the Google ecosystem because they been using Google Classroom on the Google Chromebooks in their K-12 classes for years.
- dun44 3y agoChromebooks happen to be a perfect example of a product that’s only ever used by people forced to, in this case by their school, as opposed to something people buy with their own money.