My favorite is Edge trying to plead with you not to switch browsers
this post was submitted on 28 Dec 2023
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Remember when the meme was about Internet Explorer?
IE: What is my purpose?
Me: You download Chrome!
IE: Oh...my god!
Now Chrome isn't trusted. Even duck duck go is getting dubious. It seems there's almost nowhere to turn. Your data is their data, and if you dont like it, you can lump it.
What's up with ducky?
Ok, seems it’s time to seek next search engine.
The safety of tor browser is great, but I usually use the private mode of safari or firefox, I am lazy to wait for the tor... unless I do some important things.
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Nothing. Just a misunderstanding that blew up.
Context and source?
Is it fair that I have to post a source when someone criticizing doesn't?
I'm just a passing stranger that just happens to have good knowledge about a significant misunderstanding that happened a year ago.
I don't walk around with 'sources' to all of the knowledge I've ever gained hanging out of my back pocket.
This is why "source?" posts are stupid and unreasonable, double so when in response to something where a source was never provided.
Now.. that all said, I do have a moment now that I didn't have previously to provide additional information.
This article... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31490515 ...Is a starting point, and more info can be found with your own search.
The basic gist was that it was claims DDG pass user data that could identify a user to Microsoft from searches, however this was never the case.
I have to allegiance with DDG.. they do an ok job. But I do indeed think it unfair they get continuously accused of wrongdoing, even still to this day as evidenced here.
This is just another case of bad, negative or incorrect information getting more publicity than the facts.
Someone did provide a source in response when asked instead of writing a diatribe, not that I disagree with you, but your complaint was unnecessary. Someone made a claim and was asked for more information, you made an opposite claim in response to that and were asked for more information.
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Is it fair that I have to post a source when someone criticizing doesn’t?
If you're trying to debunk a myth or call someone's BS, then yes a source should be your opening statement. Is it fair? No. Is it necessary? Absolutely.
With all that said thank you for providing the source. A very well written one it was. I am going to debunk this myth now too, if and when I see it.
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Even duck duck go is getting dubious.
Tried Kagi?
Eyy! You took the words out of my mouth! I don’t mind paying for a search engine if it’s good lol
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At work, we subscribe to Microsoft Defender so that we get a centralised view of potential security issues on people’s computers.
It’s always saying that there’s something wrong with Chrome and it never alerts about the same issues that are almost certainly a problem with Edge.
That’s mildly infuriating too.
Of course! With it's ad-blocking features, Firefox threatens the Chrome/Alphabet profits! This cannot be legal in a free (to make profits) country! /s
Firefox thinks Chrome is unsafe as well.
Well thats true though........
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You have disabled Safe Browsing. That prevents files from being checked for malware, so all downloads are blocked by default (nothing to do with Firefox). As you noted, you can override the warning to download anyway, but it is an extra step to try to reduce the chance of someone accidentally running a malicious program.
Unsafe... for our margins!
Did you download it over http instead of https? I know firefox blocks http downloads by default now so I could see chrome doing the same
I'd be very surprised if mozilla.org didn't redirect http to https.
I honestly wasn't paying attention. I just went to the download page.
While this could be malice it just as likely could be a complete error. I recently had to download a tool related to x11 on Firefox on windows and it also blocked the download as unsafe. Weirder still, it did this every time I started Firefox until I ended up ditching windows. No idea why.
iirc there's a mac setting in systems prefs where you can allow apps to be downloaded from the app store or the app store and unverified developers. by default i believe they have it set to app store only. (system prefs > security & privacy > general)
https://www.goodcore.co.uk/blog/how-to-install-apps-on-mac-from-unidentified-developers/
(edit: unverified, in this case, means people who don't pay the apple developer subscription to release in the mac app store)
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The irony. I use Vivaldi Browser now and may consider switching to Fennec if Firefox ever implements tab stacks.
What are tab stacks?
I use an extension in Firefox for this
Safari and Firefox are good enough for me, especially since I started using the SSD 3 years ago.
And duckduckgo is good enough too instead of google.
And the free RSS reader NetNewsWire is good enough for me instead of the automated recommendation system of google.
I've noticed YouTube acting funny in Firefox, too. Full-screen no longer works on our Galaxy Tab A using Firefox with ublock. On my PC, YouTube seems to randomly switch audio devices to output to. Neither of those problems exist in Chrome or the YouTube app. They didn't exist in Firefox either until recently. Almost like it's intentional...
This is a bit of an aside, but google releases a lot of security updates for Chrome. Sometimes 2-3 a month. Not sure if Firefox does the same since I only see the notices about Chrome. Not sure if it is a good thing that they fix problems quickly or a bad thing that there are so many problems.
Does it show up when you download other .dmg packages?
Nope. Downloaded GIMP and no problem.
What happens if you download a different executable file?
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