[zlg_codes]

Shame, Google keeps alienating me further from their software. There isn't a single business on this planet qualified to tell me how my computing should be. If I want Hannah Montana GIFs on every form element then damnit I should have the ability to do it.

Any browser that gets between me and control over what comes over the wire, or the filesystem, is obsolete and user hostile.

[weikju]

> Shame, Google keeps alienating me further from their software.

Then don't wait to jump ship, you know where things are going.. Otherwise you'll just get used to this latest round of user-hostile moves, then the next time you'll say the same thing after this is normalized.. and so on...

[gruez]

The flip side of this is that if you threaten to bail every time there's a "user-hostile move", you'll quickly run out of software/products to use. A few years ago there were users complaining about firefox being "user-hostile" because of [mr robot promo/pocket/addon signing/whatever], but if you bailed on firefox because those what are you going to use?

[thomassmith65]

In my case: Waterfox.

The statement "if you threaten to bail every time there's a user-hostile move, you'll quickly run out of software/products to use" seems true at first, but the longer one thinks about it, the less it makes sense.

If the argument is that all browsers have some user-hostile features, I disagree only meekly. If the argument is that all browsers are equally user-hostile, I disagree strongly.

[zlg_codes]

I already don't use them for my own stuff, and have recommended against them when asked. They're just ensuring that I start discounting anything of theirs without consideration or benefit of the doubt.

The doubt's run dry.

[pjmlp]

Every user of Chrome or its skins, and every developer shipping Electron based applications has contributed to this state of affairs.