This popped up a few times on gsuite apps while using firefox.

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      Simply avoid using Google services! instead of Google, use Duckduckgo or Startpage, replace YouTube with Invidious, Gmail with protonmail or self-hosted mail, and the office suite with LibreOffice.

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    I hate this prompt so much

    But it’s working, seeing how Chrome got almost a monopoly

    Google, right now, in my country is doing an ad campaign on TV that says “chrome on iOS has integrated phishing warning on shady pages”.

    Uh… Safari has that from 15+ years at least… and all browsers on iOS are all safari with a different skin

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      safari with a different skin

      If your country is in the EU, this just changed (right?)

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        Yes and no because the dev would have to maintain two different browsers, one for the eu and one for the rest of the world. It would double the cost of development and testing for something that regular people won’t even notice

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      The one that hate as a sysadmin is how Microsoft Defender is always telling me to disable Chrome features such as continue running in the background, third party cookies and password manager but never recommends those actions for Edge.

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        I’ve never had it say anything like, what freaky settings have you enabled?

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          This is Microsoft Defender for Endpoint that is part of the Microsoft 365 admin portal. It looks for security issues like out of date software and insecure configurations.

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      it really updates a lot. also it does it very sneaky. i think on windows it uses a background service running as admin. it’s rare it shows a tab that it updated. probably because they sneak stuff in like more tracking and pre downloaded google assets, so their pages load faster than the competition.

      for comparison firefox sometimes prompts for admin permission to update and very often displays the “we added more bloat you will never use” tab.

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    🎵We built it shitty🎵

    🎵We built it shitty on spies and lies🎵

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    I remember when this was a huge thing back when Chrome was really new.

    Other browsers always needed admin permissions to be installed and to be updated at the time. Chrome installed by-default in the user context, didn’t even ask for an installation location (which sucked 😅) and could also update without adminstrative privileges.

    Of course, nowadays this is entirely normal. But while it wasn’t the the first software to do it back then, it was the first one where the average user say something being done without a popup about changed system settings.

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      I also recall seeing lots of installers that were infected with chrome. I guess that’s how it spread to so many computers.

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        Chrome now with extra spyware and not being able to block ads and trackers! For the cheap price of your data.

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    I’m using Firefox so I’m already using one with all of those features, and the added benefit that it won’t eat my RAM and spy on me