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Re:Your Computer Isn't Yours by stkdump on Friday November 13, 2020 @03:51AM (#25080418)
> We all encouraged our friends and family to ditch IE for chrome, and look where that got us.

I didn't. I encouraged friends and family to ditch IE for Firefox and nowadays I encourage them to ditch Chrome for Firefox. I never cared that Chrome was a little faster for some time.

One person that only uses the (very old and underpowered computer) for mail and printing documents I helped install Linux (not Ubuntu ;)) and since then they are much happier, because it doesn't get slower with each security update and needs less maintenance help than with Windows.

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Re:Your Computer Isn't Yours by danuker on Friday November 13, 2020 @06:57AM (#25081341)
> encourage them to ditch Chrome for Firefox

You should probably start advising that they ditch Firefox for IceCat.

https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/browsers.html

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Re:Your Computer Isn't Yours by stkdump on Friday November 13, 2020 @11:03AM (#25083629)
The last IceCat update is over a year ago. Might as well leave my front door open.
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