| This self-defeating attitude and Schadenfreude is puzzling, if not downright disgusting. Google cheated their way into the #1 browser position by bundling Chrome with other installers (similar to the spyware of old), advertising for it on its other properties and misleading users into thinking that their current browser was worse. Now that they're #1 they're hard at work implementing anti-features such as disabling an API which was used for ad filtering, trying to keep users always logged in, tracking visited URLs, etc. Chrome is Google's trojan horse, they're not investing millions into it out of the goodness of their hearts. They're doing it because it gives them something priceless: control over the window people have to the internet. Once the above is clear, it becomes easy to understand why Chrome auto-updates and is nearly impossible to stop from doing so.
With these experiments Google has a backdoor installed into most computers in the world. And you're saying people should not be upset about the backdoor, because they didn't pay for the trojan horse. It's not the people that should pay. It's Google for spying on them and for running "tests" on their computers for free. |