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With the number of people concerned about privacy, it is a wonder why chrome is even popular.

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[–] everythingsucks@lemmy.world 205 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Most people aren’t concerned about privacy outside of places like here and Reddit.

[–] Aiastarei@lemmy.world 104 points 2 years ago (7 children)

With Chrome killing ad blocking, they'll quickly care

[–] Shikadi@wirebase.org 183 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Except most people don't use adblock. I don't even know how they live

[–] notannpc@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I forget that these people exist sometimes. I can’t ever go back to the internet with no ad blockers.

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[–] GreyDawn@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

I suspect they spend most of their time in apps and not surfing the internet. Just a guess really since I saw the mobile traffic exceeded desktop. A lot of people don't spend hours on the "internet" surfing. Tic Tok sure. Hell I'm getting more and more like that. Even when I use chrome I still only go the the same sites for the most part. lol

[–] amenotef@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It could be a good thing. Maybe they won't bother about people blocking ads because they become even less than before.

So maybe you need to pause the ad block a lot less.

[–] CrypticFawn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 years ago

Ah, you met my parents.

I had to install ublock origin on my mother's Chrome because she never would otherwise. Doesn't even know how.

[–] BigTrout75@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago
[–] FoxBJK@midwest.social 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Google’s doing a pretty shitty job on that front since uBlock is already prepared with a new version that will work largely the same after the changeover.

[–] Aiastarei@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Do you have a post clarifying how uBlock got prepared? I can't seem to find anything

[–] HughJanus@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

They won't. The vast majority aren't using any kind of ad-blockers in the first place or Google would go out of business.

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[–] Frostwolf@lemmy.world 39 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Hmmm, on the bright side, with lemmy going mainstream maybe some of this culture (including privacy and FOSS) becomes more and more openly discussed.

[–] torres@lemmy.world 73 points 2 years ago (8 children)

As much as I love Lemmy I don't see it going mainstream :/
It's too weird for the general user

[–] theragu40@lemmy.world 44 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Yeah I agree. Arguably reddit isn't even mainstream, and it is exponentially larger than Lemmy now and will remain so for the foreseeable future.

I'm really loving Lemmy, but it is not even remotely a factor if we are having a conversation about things that are mainstream enough to reflect popular opinion.

[–] tqgibtngo@kbin.social 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Arguably reddit isn’t even mainstream ...

... with just 0.91% of US social media visits ~~this year~~ in March this year, if this isn't wrong:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/265773/market-share-of-the-most-popular-social-media-websites-in-the-us/

FB 53.09%, Twit 16.25%, IG 13.85%, ..., Reddit 0.91% ...

[Edited to fix my error.]

[I have no affiliation with the linked site.]

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 5 points 2 years ago

That's US based. I don't have stats handy, but I remember seeing that huge amounts of Reddit traffic are outside the US, and from anecdotal experience, limiting the study further to younger demographics would drastically change these results.

[–] Very_Bad_Janet@kbin.social 12 points 2 years ago

Reddit was too weird for most people until they ended up being in their Google search results for most topics. It will take a while but the Fediverse will eventually reach a level of popularity and mainstream utility.

[–] subway@lemmy.fmhy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

We could have it both, where big instances like LemmyWorld or BeeHaw becomes the well known public interface, while they maintain federation with smaller instances.

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[–] torres@lemmy.world 23 points 2 years ago (5 children)

I mean I love Lemmy but I don't see it going mainstream :/
It's too weird for the general user

[–] gothicdecadence@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago (3 children)

The irony of this comment duplicating 😅 but yeah you're right, there needs to be a lot of streamlining first

[–] TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 7 points 2 years ago

I've seen this issue hundreds of times on red dot

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[–] ewe@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I dunno. Lemmy isn't all that weird outside the first little bit of choosing an instance and signing up for communities. Everything since that has felt extremely normal to me. Some more thought about that and a good instance onboarding workflow can be implemented, that seems like a solvable problem.

[–] torres@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I completely agree, I don't find it difficult at all. But I have already tried to recommend it to a couple of friends and just having to go through those first steps was enough for them not to want to use Lemmy.

[–] Frostwolf@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago (10 children)

Not sure why it’s weird, it’s just reddit but open source?

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[–] cousinofjah@twit.social 2 points 2 years ago

Keep Lemmy Weird

I wish that was the case. Privacy is barely a thing in the general public's eye. FOSS is a spec in the wind in comparison.

[–] nekat_emanresu@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

WHAAT? I CANT HEAR YOU OVER THE MEEEEEMEES!!. SPEAK LOUDEERRR!

[–] code_is_speech@lemmy.fmhy.ml 10 points 2 years ago

I think lots of boomers and gen-x do care. (At least the ones I know). They just aren't tech literate enough to do anything about it.

I think we need more privacy oriented devices and software with simple ux, and advertising that isn't targetted at the tech community.

Run some TV ads for a privacy enabled smartphone, and play up how it works just the same as your current phone but doesn't spy on you. Shit like that.