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Chrome 69 Is a Full-Fledged Assault on User Privacy

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Re: Chrome 69 Is a Full-Fledged Assault on User Privacy

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Post by kup0 »

Chrome 69 is old news. I suppose the most significant recent changes happened around then, but this is almost nearly a year ago.

A quick search turns up two earlier popular HN discussions about the problems surrounding these changes:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17942252

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18064537

That said, since then, I do refuse to use Chrome

Re: Chrome 69 Is a Full-Fledged Assault on User Privacy

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Post by rasz »

Dutchie2020 wrote: post #17
Dutchie2020 wrote: post #8

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

How about Vivaldi?

Take current JS heavy Gmail, now imagine that Gmail team rewriting Chrome UI in JS, that is Vivaldi today, some operations take _seconds_, you can see windows slowly draw in front of your eyes.

Re: Chrome 69 Is a Full-Fledged Assault on User Privacy

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Post by squarefoot »

wil421 wrote: post #18
beatgammit wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't know about Windows, but it's available on pretty much any Linux distribution. I don't know if that's an option for you, but if you're worried about Google, you should probably be worried about Microsoft too.

I halfway agree with you but one company sells you and the other sells you products. Microsoft and to some extent Apple are not the best companies at times but they are not in the same category as Ad companies (Google/FB).

"but one company sells you and the other sells you products"

Those activities aren't mutually exclusive, especially when first one can help the second (example: Win10 telemetry).

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