In recent news, Google has put forth a proposal known as the "Web Environment Integrity Explainer", authored by four of its engineers. On the surface, it
Exactly this is the problem, when I talk non-geek (including my wife) about privacy they answer “what the hell have you to hide !” … It’s so difficult to convince people :'(
But they do care about their money. Explain it in ways that will resonate with them.
Without ad blocking, they’ll encounter “scam ads” that take over the browser and demand calling “support” that collects their credit card info and costs them hundreds of dollars in fraudulent charges. At the very least, it’s a pain in the ass they have deal with by calling their credit card provider to cancel the charges.
Security extensions from antivirus/antimalware applications won’t work and subject them to even more of the above.
Malicious “attestation” services can falsely verify unscrupulous websites as legitimate.
Then don’t let Chrome be a super majority of users.
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/
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Exactly this is the problem, when I talk non-geek (including my wife) about privacy they answer “what the hell have you to hide !” … It’s so difficult to convince people :'(
But they do care about their money. Explain it in ways that will resonate with them.
Without ad blocking, they’ll encounter “scam ads” that take over the browser and demand calling “support” that collects their credit card info and costs them hundreds of dollars in fraudulent charges. At the very least, it’s a pain in the ass they have deal with by calling their credit card provider to cancel the charges.
Security extensions from antivirus/antimalware applications won’t work and subject them to even more of the above.
Malicious “attestation” services can falsely verify unscrupulous websites as legitimate.
If you have a better plan, let me know.
Otherwise you can roll over and let the internet die and ill do what i can.
The internet was better before the normies joined. “I don’t see the problem, Chrome is fine, I don’t care if it spies” is a very common thing I hear.