Switched back to Firefox with container tabs half a year ago and I'm pretty happy with it.
Chrome is a Google Service that happens to include a Browser Engine
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Re: Chrome is a Google Service that happens to include a Browser Engine
#12Not totally true, you can pretty easily have a logged-in Chrome profile that you use for Gmail, and an unauthenticated Chrome profile you use for everything else.
This is speculation on my part, however given the sophistication of their tracking capabilities I would imagine they could correlate the source to (at a minimum) a grouping of related users, if not the primary user. (Edit: remove double negative)
Yes, they certainly could, but this change doesn't change that at all.
Re: Chrome is a Google Service that happens to include a Browser Engine
#13The obvious problems and conflicts here are multiple. 1. People may wish to not have activity on multiple services connected or associated. This was certainly true for me when I found that G+ and YouTube accounts, independently created, though sharing a common email address, were conjoined. 2. Google is put in a position of advantage as regards online identity. This persists across several dimensions: a). Google apps…
What were they thinking? That most people wouldn't know or understand the implications over centralizing all things to better collect information. For Google, they turned an old adage into becoming one of the wealthiest companies in the world with the full understanding that besides government regulations, nothing's stopping them.
"Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility." --Robin Morgan
Re: Chrome is a Google Service that happens to include a Browser Engine
#14Some of the Twitter threads and related links on this:
Wait, logging into a Google site on Chrome now logs you into the browser?!!!?!
https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/10432883138834513...
https://mobile.twitter.com/x0rz/status/1040537928127135744
Google calls the feature "Identity consistency between browser and cookie jar" and a Chrome representative on the official Google Chrome Help Forum confirmed that this is the intended behavior.
https://www.ghacks.net/2018/09/08/disable-the-sign-out-link-...
Earlier HN discussion:
Re: Chrome is a Google Service that happens to include a Browser Engine
#15Chromium Ungoogled repo [1] made it to the `top30` some days ago. I too have switched back to Firefox with the release of Quantum and have been very pleased.
Frankly, I am amazed every day that Ungoogled Chromium, Firefox, & DDG.co are as good as they are. (aka: slightly inferior to Google regarding product polish, but truly "good enough" 98% of the time - without selling my future data down the drain)
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Re: Chrome is a Google Service that happens to include a Browser Engine
#16Chromium Ungoogled repo [1] made it to the `top30` some days ago. I too have switched back to Firefox with the release of Quantum and have been very pleased. Frankly, I am amazed every day that Ungoogled Chromium, Firefox, & DDG.co are as good as they are. (aka: slightly inferior to Google regarding product polish, but truly "good enough" 98% of the time - without selling my future data down the drain) (edited: to fi…
I rate Firefox pretty highly since Quantum released. It's fast, polished and in my unscientific testing, consumes less resources.
Re: Chrome is a Google Service that happens to include a Browser Engine
#17Syncing Chrome across devices has long rendered the point moot. If you wanted syncing you were already logged in to the browser. If you didn't want syncing, there was no reason to use Chrome.
Re: Chrome is a Google Service that happens to include a Browser Engine
#18The obvious problems and conflicts here are multiple. 1. People may wish to not have activity on multiple services connected or associated. This was certainly true for me when I found that G+ and YouTube accounts, independently created, though sharing a common email address, were conjoined. 2. Google is put in a position of advantage as regards online identity. This persists across several dimensions: a). Google apps…
That most people never read 1984 or are yet to watch The Circle.
Re: Chrome is a Google Service that happens to include a Browser Engine
#19Can someone explain what does "logging into Chrome" mean? (I'm not a Chrome user.)
Re: Chrome is a Google Service that happens to include a Browser Engine
#20Can someone explain what does "logging into Chrome" mean? (I'm not a Chrome user.)
You can login to the Chrome browser (think profile) using a Google Account. Doing so allows you to sync bookmarks, settings, passwords, etc. as well as remain always logged in to Google sites even after deleting all cookies (which would normally log you out obviously).