Google Chrome pushes ahead with targeted ads based on your browser history

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I am the only person out of my friends group who doesn't use chrome. One of my friends even fully understands the issues with chrome and still won't stop using it!

I can't understand this there's got to be some kind of psychological phenomenon happening here I'm completely unaware of.

I feel like they have some sort of unwarranted loyalty to chrome...

At a personal level I use waterfox I just like the way it looks.

I never really understood the appeal all that much to begin with. I mostly stuck with FF.

There was a brief period of time when chrome launched it seemed faster to me. I also liked the way it had a clean ui compared to others at the time. Used it for years, and it just got worse and worse.

I switched to Firefox a few years ago and it's much better imo. But I remember feeling like chrome was really good for a little while.

It's inertia, at least in my own experience. I've had a bunch of things I've been meaning to do but was lazy and stuck in my habits until some new event made me say "enough is enough" and then I try the new thing and a lot of the time I end up thinking I should have just done that sooner. But before that, it's "I know there's problems with this but it's what I know".

Doing the jump to Linux is the current one I'm procrastinating on. I use it already, just not on my main machine, so it's not even like I don't know how it is. I've just had a Windows main machine all my life and installing a new OS is a pain. But I do want to feel amusement instead of annoyance when hearing about the latest BS MS is trying to push.

Ya. I feel you on Linux. My media center PC is Linux and it works perfectly.

The issue for my main rig is that the main games I play don't support it. Which sucks.