If Internet Explorer managed to fall from 96% market share to complete irrelevance, Chrome is not immortal either.
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TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I hate to be a pessimist but if people hate Musk as much as they seem to, but can’t leave twitter,
or post “Fuck Spez” thousands of times, but won’t leave reddit,
I’m cautious about how much of an exodous I expect to see from chrome.
I think its time we face the fact that most people will trade almost anything for convenience.
Ultraviolet@lemmy.world 10 months ago
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 10 months ago
You arent wrong. But, acectdata and mine own, convenience drove that. People are fucking lazy and hate nothing more than to be inconvenienced. When chrome was getting traction, explorer was trasshhhhhhhhh and every one knew it.
Chrome might be a bit bloated but its no explorer. If it doesn’t hurt people to stay, I don’t think we’ll see a shift.
BubblyMango@lemmy.wtf 10 months ago
Back then internet users werent normies, but nreds and tech savy people. Also, chrome learned from IE’s mistakes. It wont stop functioning and will keep updating, so the average normy user wont mind.
somePotato@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
With the way every site is these days, removing adblock is worse than not functioning
Notorious_handholder@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I genuinely don’t know how Ill use the web without ad block. Cause I damn sure ain’t going back to paying for anti-virus like in the 90’s for a web experience that is objectively worse and less magical enough to risk it.
Drive by malware and viruses from ads has gotten scarily good at infecting systems without you knowing. It’s worse than ever as it’s not just a sketchy site issue thing anymore either. Even reputable sites have ads that only take one misclick to infect you now
Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.de 10 months ago
Times have changed. The userbase that dropped IE was a vastly different one. With the internet being more accessible and more alluring to the massed (i.e. because of social media) convenience is king.
FederatedSaint@lemmy.world 10 months ago
You made me proud of myself! I have left all three!
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 10 months ago
They better watch out. There are dozens of us. Dozens!
doot@social.bug.expert 10 months ago
I shamefully still use chrome for work hehe
Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
I cannot leave Twitter as I never used it.
manucode@infosec.pub 10 months ago
Browsers at least, unlike social networks, don’t benefit from networking effects. How many people use a specific browser doesn’t directly affect the usefulness of that browser, as users of different browsers can interact with each other to the same degree as users of the same browser. For now at least, as Google’s Web Integrity API could obviously change that if websites start to require and some browser are unable or unwilling to provide it.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 10 months ago
How many people use a specific browser doesn’t directly affect the usefulness of that browser, as users of different browsers can interact with each other to the same degree as users of the same browser. For now at least, as Google’s Web Integrity API could obviously change that if websites start to require and some browser are unable or unwilling to provide it.
Thats a great point and something to consider.
Delphia@lemmy.world 10 months ago
True. I MUST use Edge at work and honestly, its fine. Its not some radical departure from Firefox, i dont have to think too hard about the differences.
umulu@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I switched to Firefox on windows and android on the same day as I saw that WEI bullshit.
I don’t know why the fuck I was thinking it would be a worse experience… It’s the same thing.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Bro wait till you install Linux.
It’s actually better as a stock experience than windows 11.
westyvw@lemm.ee 10 months ago
It’s actually better as a stock experience than windows
Don’t even need the 11 on the end.
umulu@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I have used Ubuntu for a few months, and for me, windows 10 is still better.
dopeshark@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Pessimist, but most likely right
Spudwart@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Google broke on Firefox for a while a day ago for me. Went to some other search engine.
Jumping from social media is hard.
Jumping from applications is not.
teamspeak became Skype which became discord.
And many of us did leave Reddit. I didn’t even leave because I cared about the protests or what Reddit was doing. I left because many posts were deleted, people left, subreddits became abandoned.
Lemmy became better than Reddit basically overnight.
jimmydoreisalefty@lemmus.org 10 months ago
It is a slow process, most will still use it, but it will be less and less as time passes.
Twitter is a different beast, most of the people you follow on twitter are only active in certain groups.
All we can do is inform them and focus on what we do, no need to be stuck on what others do.
Kerrigor@kbin.social 10 months ago
The piece that gets continuously underestimated is who moves in these small initial jumps. It tends to be the more technically inclined, who over the next couple years, their recommendations will lead to friends and family moving as well, at a slower rate.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Sure. And here we are. I’m sure these companies consider us a real fly in the ointment. But I’m not inclined to believe the past is perfectly predictive of the future. What you described is also, in my perspective, how things have gone in the past. But will it happen the same way this time? I don’t know. I’m not confident based on what I’ve seen. They are trying to close in the walls on the internet and they are confident that people are too lazy to stop them.