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by philsnow 1440 days ago
> using a browser from the world’s biggest advertiser is wrong on principle

Spot on. As said many many times, the browser is the new OS.

If Google wowed the world and introduced a free (beer or speech, doesn't matter) Windows-killer OS[0] that was better in every way than Windows, was Windows-compatible, tons of people would use it. You and I wouldn't.

[0] I do know about ChromeOS, yes