With the number of people concerned about privacy, it is a wonder why chrome is even popular.

  • GodricEnglish
    10·
    2 years ago

    I love Firefox, been ride or die since I started. Chrome is just pure Spyware.

    • voxel@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      one of the main reasons i switched to firefox years ago was chrome’s telemetry/studies service lol.
      it kept randomly starting while i was playing gemes (even with chrome closed!) and consuming 100% of my cpu for over a minute.
      deleting the telemetry executable (it’s also included in some chromium browsers, but it’s usually not aggressive as in chrome) solves this but it usually just comes back with a chrome update.

      • GodricEnglish
        3·
        2 years ago

        Yeah, chrome is genuinely disgusting in terms of blatant privacy violations. They aren’t there as a browser, they’re there to collect and sell as much data as they possibly can, updates are just an excuse to “accidentally reset” privacy settings.

        Watch out for Windows doing the same.

        • voxel@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          1·
          2 years ago

          I use linux on some machines, and everything else (like my main gaming rig) has debloated windows.