Module 1-New Perspectives Summary
Module 1 of New Perspectives gave a very insightful deep dive into internet browsers and a neat little overview of HTML and Hyperlinks. Though many of the functions listed in the chapters I was familiar with to an extent, I hadn’t gotten a full picture of their full potential. My parents used to have a Chromebook in which I used Chrome much more often (until I had gotten a laptop of my own that is). On this laptop I had a lot of fun using the conversion feature listed. The various bookmarking features are extremely useful on Microsoft edge as I’ve made quite a lot of bookmarked pages over the years.
I haven’t personally used Mozilla Firefox much in my life, and I think it just
fell out of mainstream use with most people being on either Chrome or Edge, but
I did use to use Firefox back in elementary and middle school. I’m not
particularly sure why, but it was nice getting a refresher on the existence of
this browser. I really love the idea of it, that being its open-source nature
and high customizability. I do feel like Edge could benefit from some of those
features.
The module later goes into detail about private browsing and cookies. I am personally totally alright with cookies as a concept being that sites run and generally are presented better with them on. However, I don’t think such large swathes of data should be in the hands of companies to just do whatever they want with. On the subject of incognito browsing, I am quite sure there was a lawsuit against Google over their incognito mode not exactly being private and them still keeping information. The open source and smaller side of the internet seems to be much better at maintaining user privacy than the larger companies (Duckduckgo, Brave Browser, etc).