[metabagel]

I don't understand why anyone would choose Chrome over Firefox. I get that it's performant, but it's developed by a dominant advertising company. Why would you trust Chrome if you care about your privacy?

Firefox is excellent, despite the grumbling of people who want it to have a narrower focus (which I'm not disagreeing with).

[DaSHacka]

> if you care about your privacy?

I think you just answered your own questions.

[godelski]

Then explain Brave then. They market as privacy but it has similar issues being chromium. The most critical being that by being chromium Google still gets to dictate how the internet works

[s3p]

I'm not sure they did. What do you think is the answer to "Why would you trust chrome if you care about privacy?"

[DaSHacka]

GP said:

> I don't understand why anyone would choose Chrome over Firefox. I get that it's performant, but it's developed by a dominant advertising company. Why would you trust Chrome if you care about your privacy?

I believe the vast majorty of people do not care about their privacy, answering GP's question.

[tim333]

I tend to use Chrome over Firefox although I have both. Plus points - better translate, google lens, slick and consistent. Minus points - Firefox containers are good.

Re privacy it comes across to me as a bit tin foil hat worrying about the evil doers tracking my thoughts. I mean sure I don't want criminals to know my home address and bank account details but re Google knowing say I use mac and advertising some Apple stuff to me - what's the problem?

[mac-attack]

> re Google knowing say I use mac and advertising some Apple stuff to me - what's the problem?

The issue is that the data isn't limited to device type and Google uses this data to sell to marketers. The more data they have on you, the more money they make which is why they're incentivized to break the rules and vacuum up as much data as possible even if it breaks the law. Hence, less than 6 months ago they paid over a billion dollars for "unlawfully tracking users’ geolocation, incognito searches, and collecting biometric data without proper consent"[1]

They're incentivized to abuse your data and owning the browser allows them for unchecked access to your internet browsing and information about you.

1. https://euroweeklynews.com/2025/06/01/time-to-uninstall-goog...

[tim333]

Well, we'll see. Google have all my info really, including emails and photos and in ~25 years of using them I haven't heard of anything particularly bad happening. They used to have my full location data but offloaded it to my device slightly to my annoyance so they don't get hassled by law enforcement asking where people are. I think people sometimes people worry about the wrong stuff.

[thesuitonym]

The same reason people used to choose Internet Explorer over Firefox, because it was already installed on their device. The device of the masses has changed from desktop computers to Android phones, and those have Chrome.