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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What kind of cruel IT person installs Chrome and forbids Firefox
A lot. My IT company does the same. Fortunately, my team got an exception and we don't use IT's computers, but instead we manage it ourselves.
So I use macOS for work, while the rest of the company is on locked down Windows. I'd prefer Linux, but beggars can't be choosers.
In IT’s defense, there are a lot of REALLY stupid people. Plus given the added cost of developing internal apps that work for both, I can understand why corporations would choose to lock you into Chromium. I don’t like it, and I wish there was more trust in the end user, but I do get it.
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the kind that doesn't know 'bout 'portable apps', which is what i did when the ITs did that to me back then.
The kind that needs to maintain their users' access to lazy shitty vendors who only develop their sites for the browser with the largest market share.
Half the vendors we use webapps/websites from jumped to Chrome when IE was dying, the other held on to IE kicking and screaming until forced out, then jumped to Chrome. They aren't going to spend the resources to ensure cross compatability unless they have significant financial incentive to, and they don't. And IT isn't going to tell the business side to forget about getting work done until they find a better vendor just because IT wants to make a stand on browser vendors.