There is a reason the world is more polarized than ever and it's not because people are any more opinionated or unreasonable, it's because they are being re-enforced on their opinion or the opinion of the group willing to spend the most for the content to show up. Unless you are willing to dig through pages of products or specifically research local businesses or different news outlets etc, they will push the information they want you to see to push your opinion on subjects to one side or the other. This isn't a privacy problem anymore but controlling the ease you can get non-filtered content. So even using duckduckgo, and an ad blocker, and a vpn while using chrome you will still get pushed around to content on sites we use everyday Instagram, YouTube (the primary news source for countless people), Twitter, even Facebook who competes with Google for ads will use data from them to tailor the feed to specific topics and sources. It's not the privacy for everyone who switches away, many people switch because of the targeting and narrowing of their information sources being presented.Įven on the less obvious things like looking up research papers or getting news sources are vastly different depending on the browser and how it's being used. Other than for Privacy, why would anyone use anything else than Chrome?

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