Cyborganism@lemmy.ca to privacy@lemmy.ca · 8 months agoGoodbye Chrome. It was great while it lasted.lemmy.caimagemessage-square274fedilinkarrow-up1791arrow-down135file-text
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minus-squareDumbAceDragon@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up73arrow-down3·8 months ago“To stop everyone else from stealing your data, let us steal it for them!” It’s like trying to stop a fire by committing arson.
minus-squarePregnenolone@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up50·8 months ago It’s like trying to stop a fire by committing arson I get the point you’re trying to make, but we regularly actually start fires to prevent fires.
minus-squareDumbAceDragon@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20·8 months agoThat’s true. Maybe I should’ve picked my analogy better lol.
minus-squaresuperguy@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·8 months agoBig reason why analogies are fallacies: they’re never a 1:1 representation of the subject and hand and usually serve to derail the conversation by making people debate the merits of the analogy.
minus-squareHamartiogonic@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·8 months agoA forest fire can’t burn the leaves you already burned a few months ago.
minus-squareSturgiesYrFase@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down6·8 months ago🤣🤣🤣 beat me to it, like almost literally verbatim what I was going to say.
minus-squarebob_lemon@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up7·8 months agoBonus points for doing that as the single largest advertisement company in the world.
“To stop everyone else from stealing your data, let us steal it for them!”
It’s like trying to stop a fire by committing arson.
I get the point you’re trying to make, but we regularly actually start fires to prevent fires.
That’s true. Maybe I should’ve picked my analogy better lol.
Big reason why analogies are fallacies: they’re never a 1:1 representation of the subject and hand and usually serve to derail the conversation by making people debate the merits of the analogy.
A forest fire can’t burn the leaves you already burned a few months ago.
🤣🤣🤣 beat me to it, like almost literally verbatim what I was going to say.
Bonus points for doing that as the single largest advertisement company in the world.
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