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361 points robenkleene | 1 comments | 23 May 20 09:42 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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MintelIE ◴[23 May 20 18:52 UTC] No.23285409[source]▶
Why don't companies come out and tell people what they're doing these days? Telemetry is getting to the point where people such as doctors and lawyers might be violating the law by using a modern computer. And people in the defense industry? Doesn't Apple employ thousands of forns? Who's audited their datasystems and ensured that this stuff stays private?

Much easier and better to just stop using it all and move to a system like Linux or BSD. 99% of people do everything in a browser these days anyhow.

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FpUser ◴[23 May 20 19:21 UTC] No.23285613[source]▶
>"99% of people do everything in a browser these days anyhow."

This exaggeration is clearly absurd.

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MintelIE ◴[23 May 20 19:24 UTC] No.23285633[source]▶
Are you certain about this? I think I was being conservative.

It's easy for us tech nerds in our little gadget bubbles to suppose that everybody is like us. But most people are simple browser users, and Office 365 and Google Docs have all but killed off office software on the desktop for many users.

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1. kgraves ◴[23 May 20 20:09 UTC] No.23285944{3}[source]▶
> But most people are simple browser users, and Office 365 and Google Docs have all but killed off office software on the desktop for many users.

In reality, I see most people use desktop software instead of the browser (without using the internet in some cases) to do their work. (Think CAD, Adobe, DAW software, Excel, video production software) even on mobile/tablets Office can be used where no internet connection is available.

I seriously doubt that users would spend all their time in a browser window other than for consumption purposes like social media and video sites. The idea of 99% of people doing everything in the browser seems questionable to me and some data about this would be helpful here.

Apart from the computer science department, I also doubt that people would find it easier to go to Linux, BSD or the other galaxy of distros.