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I don’t think anyone is saying Firefox is inherently bad. What I’m reading, and what I believe, is Google just has a better product for secure enterprise browsing because of the controls they offer

The browser is where basically all your work happens, especially as a Workspace customer—think about how much of your work is done in the browser. That makes it a huge, attractive attack surface. And attackers don't even need a browser vulnerability; they can just convince an employee to install a malicious browser extension, and suddenly they can steal passwords, watch everything you do, and hijack your sessions on other sites.

So security teams need visibility into what's happening in the browser. Google does a decent—not great—job of providing this through Managed Chrome: centralized logs, control over which extensions can be installed, even alerts when someone reuses their Workspace password elsewhere.

Firefox, Safari, and most others don't offer these business controls, which means a security team allowing them is flying blind. And a blind security team is gonna have a bad time… mmmkay.

On support: someone mentioned using Firefox to verify their app works across browsers—god's work, truly. But not every vendor does that, so IT ends up fielding "this site just isn't working" tickets that turn out to be browser compatibility issues. Fewer supported browsers means a smaller surface to support and a better experience all around.

This can't be enforced where you're not using your corporate identity. A Dropbox account on your personal email is still accessible from any browser.

+1 to Carrot. I’m a huge fan. The annual subscription is pricey but I travel a lot and it’s consistently one of the most accurate apps I’ve used and I tried a bunch! They even have an “I miss Dark Sky” setting that makes the UI a clone of Dark Sky

The first sentence of your comment is unnecessary to make your point and I’m curious why you chose to post it.

One reason not covered here is a lot of companies still contractually require their software services vendors to follow old, outdated password rules that reflect Burr’s old password requirements. This includes password complexity rules and forcing regular password changes on employees. The companies wrote a bunch of security requirements a few years ago but no one is really responsible for making sure those requirements stay modern, for example removing password requirements and instead requiring webauthn instead. So what was supposed to be something that made vendors do the right thing with security has now become something that makes these companies unable to adapt to new security theories and practices.

While they can’t force a Prosecutor to prosecute, the ruling does bolster the lawsuits from those impacted like families and partners. I’m curious what your definition of “anywhere” is

I deleted my FB and IG accounts about a year ago and have no regrets. I find myself spending less time on my phone and not reaching for it every time I have a free moment. If I need to find the contact info for someone, I use LinkedIn.

What I miss the most is getting birthday reminders and event invites. What I miss the least is the negative feelings social media gave me about my life and the world more broadly.

What I have found is my connections with the people I keep in touch with is much deeper because I don’t let a “like” replace a true interaction. I am intentional about adding birthdays to my calendar now and once my friends realized I wasn’t hearing about events, they made sure to let me know.

I highly recommend it. Both platforms allow you to recover your account within a time frame so it’s kind of a no lose situation if you want to try it out. One recommendation before you do: make sure you download all of your pictures, videos, etc… first.

I sincerely hope you do this and wish you the best of luck if you do.

Edit: lowercased an AND and deleted and incomplete sentence

Your statement is not accurate and also misleading. There’s a number of factors that landed Sri Lanka where it is today for example over investing in domestic production for internal consumption vs. investing in a healthy export economy, deep tax cuts beginning in 2019 to gain support for the ruling party, and taking on massive amounts of debt to China to fund infrastructure projects. The country is 13 years removed from a civil war (which is not a long time) and has been mostly led by a dynastic family that implemented damaging policies to maintain popular support. All of this was exacerbated by the pandemic, accelerating the downfall of the country’s economy because of these disastrous policies.

And to address your “go green” comment directly, Sri Lanka banned the import of foreign fertilizers not because they were committed to being organic but because they had dire foreign exchange shortages beginning last year. This has commonly been misconstrued as the country trying to be organic because that’s how it was sold to the people of the country by that dynastic leadership to hide the failure of leadership’s economic policies.

I’m disappointed that you posted this comment to HN. We are a community that’s better than this historically but I see the same uniformed voices popping up here now that ruined Reddit years ago. Sri Lanka is a country of 22 million people who are currently in a crisis and actually starving. They deserved better than what you wrote.

This post hit close to home. About 15 years ago, Ubuntu got decent enough to replace Windows on my parents PC. They needed to access websites and receive and send email, something Linux could definitely provide. No more worrying about malware or other Windows demons. Fast forward 15 years and their PC has been fully replaced by iPads with keyboard cases and iPhones. Yes, they are in a walled-garden curated by Apple but for the technical illiterate this is actually a good thing because the experience is seamless across devices. I’ve downloaded apps for all of their financial services and they've learned to never log in to a website when dealing with their banks which minimizes the risk of phishing. They use iOS’s native password manager to create unique passwords for all there sites, minimize password reuse risks. But most importantly, they know how to keep their devices up to date with the latest OS release without me having to do a monthly patch for them. Strongly recommend exploring this setup if you struggle with supporting your parents’ tech the way I did. Life is much better now.

Not sure if this helps with filtering out subreddits but I highly recommend teddit.net. Just switched after the mobile experience became essentially unusable without the app.

You’re arguing against monitoring equipment in the cockpit in an article that’s about people arguing against monitoring equipment in the cockpit. Thanks for making me laugh today. I appreciate you.

As a libertarian, he accepts that Facebook has every right to do this. Right?

I’ve said this in a couple of comments but reiterating here, we’re talking about a new event that caused a failure of systems. There are no government systems or subsidies to help working parents who suddenly have no public or private school and who need to balance work with the very sudden needs of providing around the clock childcare. Longer term, yes, it will be great if there is more support similar to medical care leave but an immediate solution was needed and companies did the right thing by offering flexibility to their employees. The medical leave model was put forth because it captures the essence of a required reduction of work (which is what parents are experiencing) compared to a discretionary decision like giving vegans Fridays off. It’s not time yet to take a long view of how equitable this is, we have no idea how long parents will need this flexibility for. If this lasts a year, I don’t think we should look to the government to step in. If this lasts several years, yes, we need to come up with a model that works long term and that will likely require some sort of government action.

I disagree that my thinking falls apart. Maybe my message is not coming across clearly so I’ll try and restart it: We are not talking about a benefit that is systemic and a typical part of our workforce. We are talking about a reaction by companies to help their employees during an unprecedented failure of normal institutions during a moment of global crisis. To extrapolate that into an argument of choices around kids, equity of benefits, or the the role of government vs. private responsibility. We’re taking about something that started 6 months ago and has still not returned to normal, if it ever will. This will require a fundamental rethink of how we work, yes, but in the interim, parents needed help, companies stepped up and complaining about any of that seems selfish and missing the point.