A trivial thing perhaps but it\u2019s harder than you think to change browsers.<\/p>\n
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I have used Chrome for well over 20 years (probably more than 30). It\u2019s not perfect, it has many psycho-social-political issues against its use and there are a fair few features it lacks that are offered by other browsers (better tab organisation, bookmark tricks, password management etc.) but every time I try to change (have tried vivaldi, opera, arc, brave, among others) it takes so long to master them that I have to continue to use Chrome in parallel while learning.\u00a0 In the end it just takes too much time and gets in the way of the flow. So, I always end up back with Chrome.<\/p>\n
Thus I recently made the decision not to fret about the politics lying behind browser choice and put the temptations of \u2018better\u2019 browsers behind me. After all, I am less than a microbial dot in the sea of Chrome\u2019s nefarious uses of my personal data. And what Google provides is so useful and familiar (esp Gmail and Docs) the socio-political risks are worth taking.<\/p>\n
Things could change. If Trump does manage to force Google to sell off Chrome, that could be an opportunity to change esp if the buyer is a worse dog \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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