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EU browser choice rules send millions more users Firefox's way (www.theregister.com)
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[–] 69 points 5 months ago (25 children)

Nice but it's kinda wierd how people decided to use these browsers after this new law was passed, I mean it's so easy to install apps on smartphones right now but people needed this choice screen to choose another browser of their liking? I would guess it's probably old people that switched that didn't know how to install browser without it, I googled but couldn't find any prove of this tho so it's just my guts

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  • [–] 115 points 5 months ago (6 children)

    It's laziness. Most people just take the path of the least resistance.

    Once you show them the screen, any choice is the same amount of work so they will select what they really want. But without the screen, 90% of people will be good enough with the default option. Or, they might even be mildly uncomfortable with that option, but not enough to do something about it.

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  • [–] 17 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    Yeah I guess people doesn't really care all that much about giving information to big tech, it's so normalized today, in my university (I am a student) when I tell people I don't use Instagram or TikTok and whatnot they look at me like I am crazy, tbh maybe if we define crazy as "not doing what everyone around you does" maybe I am

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  • [–] 16 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    people doesn't really care all that much about giving information to big tech

    I was one of those people some time ago. I remember doing it deliberately and saying "what will they do to me? Offer me a product that better suits my needs?"

    I never had any issues because of that...

    right now I decline each time, the more work it costs me, the more motivated I am to decline every single marketing consent.

    I do it out of spite, because of all the enshitification happening to services I used to like, and I just try to make their life harder.

    I really hope that Google will, some day, miss one cent needed for some huge multi billion deal thanks to my resistance! ;)

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 child)

    people doesn't really care all that much about giving information to big tech

    To be fair, we haven’t had all the consequences of it hit the population yet.

    Surveillance pricing might change the narrative

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    oh don't you worry, it won't. Because those who refuse the surveillance will face the highest prices.

    recently I bought something in a shop I rarely go to. plenty of things they sold for two times the price if you didn't have a member card.

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  • [–] 28 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    We tend to overestimate people's skill in tech. The average user uses what came installed, doesn't like installing and experimenting apps, uses a browser while logged in to google, taps yes on everything, will install apps when sites ask for it, without even noticing, and will register in every site or app that asks for it, and even give their real email, name, etc

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    And there are probably many users that do all of this due to being afraid that things might just start breaking, or that more actions they don't understand will be required to keep the system rolling, if they stray from this path for even a little.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    Yeah, there is a very large part of society that tends to default to β€œif I change anything, I’ll probably break it. It works now, so I won’t change anything.” It likely has a lot of overlap with the β€œyou touched my computer eight months ago, and it stopped working yesterday. Whatever you changed must have broken it” population; anyone who has become the de facto family tech support will know exactly who I am talking about.

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  • [–] 26 points 5 months ago

    it’s so easy to install apps on smartphones right now

    Providing choice as a default is precisely about people who are influenced by defaults. It's NOT about how feasible something technically is.

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  • [–] 24 points 5 months ago*

    i've legit seen many people who have no idea what a web browser is, internet == chrome/safari/edge (which opens automatically when clicking a link on some app) for them. this isn't just older people, actually it's usually worse with younger people.

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    It isn't that weird. Users have a very low tolerance for independence, especially as tech markets itself to less and less tech savvy userbases(like Gen alpha and z). They do what their screens tell them to for the most part.

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  • [–] -1 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    like Gen alpha and z

    As a gen Z who started with Linux with 12, daily driven it since 14 and dipped into Gentoo and arch at 15, I feel offended

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  • [–] -5 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    i'm sure more people would install brave now they know about how great it is

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago

    I'm sure more people would delete Brave if they started to apply the same standards they do for Firefox

    Oh, you should just disable the rewards the cryptowallet the ads on the homepage and ignore all the nonsense they did in the past, then it's greaaaaat

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