As read from my Mozilla Firefox…

  • Luna@lemdro.id
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    4 months ago

    Meanwhile my school still uses Chrome v109 since that was the last version that supported Windows 8

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    4 months ago

    I’m going to go way out on a limb here and guess nothing will happen if I do neither.

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      4 months ago

      The article says that’s what the government is telling employees since there were several critical vulnerabilities found in chrome. It is very convenient that these vulnerabilities were patched in the same update that manifest v2 is removed though

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        4 months ago

        CVEs are constantly found in complex software, that’s why security updates are important. If not these, it’d have been other ones a couple of weeks or months later. And government users can’t exactly opt out of security updates, even if they come with feature regressions.

        You also shouldn’t keep using software with known vulnerabilities. You can find a maintained fork of Chromium with continued Manifest V2 support or choose another browser like Firefox.

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          4 months ago

          You also shouldn’t keep using software with known vulnerabilities. You can find a maintained fork of Chromium with continued Manifest V2 support or choose another browser like Firefox.

          It’s disgusting how this exact idea is used to push users away from things they want, and no matter what they claim, you can’t convince me this isn’t part of how they design certain updates. When the customer has no choice but to update, the company has no reason to make the update appealing. They can actively make it all worse and worse and worse, while continuing to scare users into accepting it.

          I’m tired of companies hiding behind “security” to mask anti-consumer shit, and I’m tired of the security community helping them shovel that shit while acting like the consumer is a fool for not wanting to eat it.

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            4 months ago

            Yeah, go read a book or something.You have no idea what you are talking about.

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      4 months ago

      Check out https://www.privacyguides.org, they have a bunch of useful info and recommendations.

      Remember, it’s not an all-or-nothing situation, every step you take away from google helps. And you can always reevaluate later, and take time to figure out what works best for you.

    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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      4 months ago

      Do it!

      I’m still working on it, but I’ve cut out quite a bit. Start with Chrome, and work your way down.

      When you get to email, Gmail has a very convenient forwarding feature so you can forward all email to the new one while you change accounts and whatnot. I made a new account elsewhere, and I have a separate folder for email from my old Gmail and my new email. Every so often I’ll go fix an account or two, so I’m making steady progress.

      For me, docs/drive is the hardest, so I’m doing it last. I’m playing with self-hosted options, and am still in an adjustment period.

      • QuadratureSurfer@lemmy.world
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        4 months ago

        Getting away from Google Maps has been a tough one. There aren’t many options there, it’s either Google, Apple, Microsoft, or OpenStreetMap.

        I’ve been contributing to OSM for my local area as much as possible to update businesses and their opening hours, website, etc., but it’s not a small task.

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          4 months ago

          For Google Maps, what about a dedicated phone for just running Maps? It would only get internet from hotspot on your real phone.

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          4 months ago

          I’ve been getting around quite well on OrganicMaps, but it does lack live traffic information

          • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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            4 months ago

            Honestly, the live traffic information is pretty bad in my area anyway. It’ll say a road has high traffic or an accident long after the traffic has cleared, or it’ll say it’s clear when it’s clearly not.

            So if that’s your hangup, try going without it for a week or two and see if it really impacts you.