I’m bewildered that any consumer is using Chrome at all, except that nagging clearly works. Every time you go to a Google site and dare to use any other browser, you get nagged — and nagged — that you could be using Chrome. That seems very anti-competitive to me.
Second, Google Chrome **is spyware.** Everything you do on it — including in “private” mode — goes straight back to Google for marketing purposes. For Google, “private” means “private against everyone except us.”
Third, Google Chrome isn’t even a standout browser. Safari is better, Firefox is better, and not just for privacy/no data collection purposes.
I was one of those kids on whom nagging NEVER worked, and generally had the exact opposite of the intended effect, so naturally I don’t want or respond to an invasive, privacy-shredding corporation trying to nag me into using Chrome. My response to it is simply to avoid using anything associated with Google, because there are plenty of alternatives out there, including some superior ones, for everything Google offers.
Google’s services are free for a reason. The reason is they make a shedload of money selling your data.
I'm wondering how this could ever play out since Google cannot sell the browser engine itself, Google doesn't own Chromium, it's opensource. So what would they be selling then? A skin?
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Second, Google Chrome **is spyware.** Everything you do on it — including in “private” mode — goes straight back to Google for marketing purposes. For Google, “private” means “private against everyone except us.”