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Re:If you care about privacy, it’s time to try a new web bro... by smitty1e on Saturday April 03, 2021 @02:04PM (#26683210)
'Ridiculous' is unfair. Google has enough technical chops and market heft to set new internet standards and not look as silly as Redmond did in the 90s in the process.
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Re:If you care about privacy, it’s time to try a new web bro... by t-writescode on Saturday April 03, 2021 @02:22PM (#26683376)
I think you’re equally being unfair to who Microsoft was and employed in the 90s.
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Re:If you care about privacy, it’s time to try a new web bro... by smitty1e on Saturday April 03, 2021 @06:45PM (#26685412)
Very possibly so, especially on an individual basis.

Yet the echos of a bazillion BSODs that have seemed less prevalent with Chrome are there.

To your point, comparing an OS to a browser is lame.

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Re:If you care about privacy, it’s time to try a new web bro... by HWR_14 on Saturday April 03, 2021 @07:59PM (#26685831)
I'm not sure how you expected MS to prevent BSOD, which often derived from behavior of programs or drivers. The worst BSOD timeframe seemed to predate computer resources being so vast that common OS protections were viable. And when programs were more hard-crash prone in general.
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