Meanwhile, Microsoft keeps you trapped into compatibility issues with Firefox because Firefox claims it tries its best for privacy friendly techniques despite you needing to tweak Firefox software after you installed it since it does not have a privacy friendly environment 100% after you install it since it works with advertisers like Google.
will probably give you a crappy user experience sometimes while they are all used for the government to spy on you. *Maybe*, like Netflix, they’ll try to make it *kind* of work in Firefox from time to time, but so long as it works in Google Chrome and Microsoft’s future Chrome-based browser, why bother? It’s not like any public antitrust enforcement authorities are going to come after them for conspiracy to maintain and extend a monopoly, right? And really, why would they?ĬIA: “So do we! I mean, we can neither confirm nor deny that we like Google Chrome.”Īnything that is owned by Microsoft such as Skype, Google, Amazon, Facebook, WhatsApp, Telegram the messaging app, etc. Then they adapted it to the current, moribund version of Edge, because as a Microsoft-owned outfit, they *had* to. May I offer a guess? The Skype team started out by coding exclusively for Google Chrome, like *every other Web app and site developer* nowadays. Still, even though I don’t personally care what happens to Skype anymore, I *am* interested to find out exactly why the Web-version demo doesn’t work with Firefox. It’s *nice* to be able to talk freely, even just about mundane things, without the Vole and Big Brother listening in and recording - a feeling that is becoming increasingly elusive. None of the people I’ve convinced to switch to Wire have regretted it. The biggest challenge is getting your contacts to install it.
I’ve run into a few glitches, with both the Windows desktop and Android smartphone versions - and that NEVER happens with Skype, right? /s - but by and large, Wire works quite well, and I think its voice quality is actually superior to Skype’s. I’m not involved in anything shady I’m just tired of having everything I do and say online get intercepted, analyzed, and stored for someone else’s profit or leverage. I switched to Wire, where communications are (supposedly) encrypted end to end and (supposedly) inaccessible even to the folks that *run* Wire.