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Comment by alexf95 | Hacker News Reader

I dont understand why people that care so much for privacy just go and switch browsers? Website designers will never change and block users from using their site with Chrome because that would just kill 70% of the traffic.

I'm using FF myself and never had a problem with it

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Chrome and Edge have some interesting "integrations" that may seem like really small details but "just work". For Edge when you install Windows 10 for the first time it will automatically log into Live.com (Outlook) accounts so a new user will open that stuff up and immediately have access to their emails, documents from word, etc.

Similarly for Chrome all of the Google account stuff is very deeply integrated. Google goes through a decent amount of trouble to trust the shit out of those cookies too. I had a laptop that was unused for 18 months with Chrome on it, when I opened it back up it was still able to access everything without any kind of re-authentication. Firefox on the same laptop needed to be re-authorized.

EDIT: Not making the argument that these are valid reasons, just that users are super risk adverse/lazy.

For HN users, sure.

But most people are not aware of the choice they make when they use Chrome, or its consequences for their privacy.

And web developers designing for Chrome first and Firefox second means it's more convenient for users to use Chrome to visit their websites.

Chrome is the internet for a lot of folk these days, the same way "the blue e with the swirl" (Internet Explorer) was the internet in the late 90s/early 00s

While I think its true that most people aren't aware of the privacy problem, i also think that a big part of that group also just doesn't care.

I'm using FF myself, but there are problems with playing some medias in desktop, and in mobile the problems are too many to count.

> Website designers will never change and block users from using their site with Chrome because that would just kill 70% of the traffic.

s/Chrome/Internet Explorer

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