Got this notification when I opened Chrome when coming back to my desk after lunch.
"We changed our privacy settings to allow us to snoop on what you're looking at and shove you ads accordingly. Feel free to opt out, but we'll probably opt you back in when you aren't paying attention."
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Our laptop is locked. We cannot just install programs into it and there are regular audits on the content of the laptop so no portable applications also.
Of course on my personal laptop I've always used FF since I became aware of it, about the year 2007 or so.
OK, I don't think your work laptop really counts, that's entirely the decision and fault of your employer. We use Google apps at work but I don't consider myself to be a Google apps user, just my work is.
Yeah but that in itself underlines the problem. A large part of people's time is spent on work. And yes people do tend to use what is familiar.
Think of adobe. They offer students free access to adobe products. Which in turn transfers to a workforce that mainly use their products which in turn bleeds unto nonprofessionals using their products because of the abundance of youtube tutorials by professionals on how to use adobe products.
You nailed it. I use FF for personal stuff, but I need a chromium browser for work (internal sites are wonky on FF).
But I work 8hrs a day for 5 days. I don't even have 8 hours of total free time on saturday and sunday combined, much less use my pc for that long for personal things.