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A comment on Bye, Chrome: Why I’m switching to Firefox (2018).

Re:Bye, Chrome: Why I’m switching to Firefox (2018) by cookie_monsta on Friday November 08, 2019 @09:02PM (#21489041)
Not trying to snark, but this seems like pretty basic stuff - is there anything in the article that the average HN reader wouldn't have heard multiple times already?
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Re:Bye, Chrome: Why I’m switching to Firefox (2018) by xxxtentachyon on Friday November 08, 2019 @09:09PM (#21489078)
Nope, but this article isn't aimed at HN readers. It's aimed at lay people who don't necessarily understand what actions they're taking to implicitly undermine their own privacy or jeopardize the future of an open, standards-driven web. Katherine has written other, more innovative pieces around the same issues: https://www.fastcompany.com/90369697/googles-new-recaptcha-h...
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Re:Bye, Chrome: Why I’m switching to Firefox (2018) by cookie_monsta on Friday November 08, 2019 @09:13PM (#21489093)
> Nope, but this article isn't aimed at HN readers. It's aimed at lay people who don't necessarily understand what actions they're taking...

So why is it here?

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Re:Bye, Chrome: Why I’m switching to Firefox (2018) by naniwaduni on Friday November 08, 2019 @09:15PM (#21489103)
An article can be of interest to HN readers without being aimed at them.
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Re:Bye, Chrome: Why I’m switching to Firefox (2018) by cookie_monsta on Friday November 08, 2019 @09:20PM (#21489123)
No doubt. But the reason why this one isn't aimed at HN readers is because they've heard all of this multiple times already.

I'm not disagreeing with the article, I'm just wondering why it is of interest.

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Re:Bye, Chrome: Why I’m switching to Firefox (2018) by forgotmypw3 on Friday November 08, 2019 @09:05PM (#21489057)
Content to advertising ratio very low with this article, I think people just voted it up for the feel-good value.
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Re:Bye, Chrome: Why I’m switching to Firefox (2018) by cookie_monsta on Friday November 08, 2019 @09:21PM (#21489131)
I guess that makes sense.
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Re:Bye, Chrome: Why I’m switching to Firefox (2018) by dammitfoo on Saturday November 09, 2019 @01:34AM (#21490005)
Not much. But the article can be shared with your non-technical friends and family members though. I guess that's why it has a lot of upvotes.
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