Comment on Heroic former PC Gamer writer creates a script to banish all the AI features from Google Chrome

• Quexotic@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Anyone that’s pasting shit like

  & ([scriptblock]::Create((irm “raw.githubusercontent.com/…/main.ps1”)))

  Into elevated powershell windows should be summarily fired and prosecuted.

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• artyom@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What do you mean “require”? My workplace says we need Chrome but I’ve used other browsers and never had a problem. It’s just one of those lazy “you’ll have the best experience if you use Chrome” BS because they can’t be bothered to validate or diagnose anything else.

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  • ranandtoldthat@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Duo enforcement, for example. It’s pretty robust and hard to spoof. Some companies are willing to pay a lot of money to control their employees.

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    • artyom@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Google Duo? Like the video calling app? Thought that was dead…

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  • Ghoelian@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    At one of my previous employers, there was an intranet website where the nav menu would only work correctly in edge in IE compatibility mode. I’m not sure how they even managed this. I only used edge for that one website though, Firefox for everything else.

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    • artyom@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Most likely through your user agent. I have found some websites demand this and will block access but simply switching the user agent grants you access and everything works fine. This infuriates me. Again, they just can’t be bothered to support free browsers.

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      • Ghoelian@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I don’t think it was a user-agent thing. The nav menu would just functionally not work on other browsers. Iirc it just showed every menu in the expanded state. They probably used some IE exclusive JavaScript methods without any polyfills.

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