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by UI_at_80x24 2740 days ago
(1) Attack surface. (2) Security abstraction. (3) Trust.

(1)This is the same-old argument as "there are more copies of Windows installed then Mac" [semantics aside, there is some truth to it]

(2)Don't shit where you eat. You don't use the same tool to protect that you use. [e.g. Windows Defender vs external gateway/firewall]

(3)Between compliance with the government [in contrast to Apple fighting the government with encryption on iphones], and YOU being the product not Chrome; I don't trust Google to keep my secrets 'secret'.