Chrome 69 Is a Full-Fledged Assault on User Privacy

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Post by Dnyaneshwar » Wed, Aug 07, 2019, 10:38 AM UTC

Chrome 69 Is a Full-Fledged Assault on User Privacy
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Post by collyw » Wed, Aug 07, 2019, 12:13 PM UTC

Why do so few people use Chromium? (I use Firefox for most stuff, but I prefer the debugger in Chrome / Chromium).

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Post by natvert » Wed, Aug 07, 2019, 12:20 PM UTC

Or Brave browser?

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Post by DavinMiler » Wed, Aug 07, 2019, 12:22 PM UTC

collyw wrote: post #2

Why do so few people use Chromium? (I use Firefox for most stuff, but I prefer the debugger in Chrome / Chromium).

Because the large majority of users have no idea that there are alternatives, or are scared to switch because they are so locked into the whole google ecosystem.

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Post by gifflar » Wed, Aug 07, 2019, 12:37 PM UTC

collyw wrote: post #2

Why do so few people use Chromium? (I use Firefox for most stuff, but I prefer the debugger in Chrome / Chromium).

Is Chromium's behavior any different from Chrome's sync. behavior?

Years ago, I started using Chrome instead of Chromium or Firefox because they made Flash work out of the box on Linux. Although Flash is not important for me anymore, I just never looked back.

With all this new strange Sync and Log-in behavior, I'll might change to a different browser.

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Aug 07, 2019, 1:21 PM UTC

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Post by qekbg » Wed, Aug 07, 2019, 1:23 PM UTC

collyw wrote: post #2

Why do so few people use Chromium? (I use Firefox for most stuff, but I prefer the debugger in Chrome / Chromium).

I'd use it, but where are there installers that 1) I can trust and 2) are updated as soon as Google releases a new version and 3) that allow me to get automatic updates (without having to check for an update .exe myself)?

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Post by Dutchie2020 » Wed, Aug 07, 2019, 1:30 PM UTC

Does anyone here have experience with Opera? How is it for daily use?

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Post by fcarraldo » Wed, Aug 07, 2019, 1:38 PM UTC

This is from September 2018, should it have (2018) in the title?

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Post by majora2007 » Wed, Aug 07, 2019, 1:47 PM UTC

I switched to Firefox recently due to some of the changes in Chrome (esp ad-blocking) and so far, really like it. The UI is a little clunkier than I like and I miss some of Chrome's autocomplete or CC auto-fill features, but FF is fast and way more secure. Plus it has DNS over TLS which is a huge win in my book.