[bastard_op]

Chrome is the new IE6. Google set themselves up to be the next Microsoft and is "ad friendly" in all the creepy ways because that's what Google IS an ad company. All they've contributed to security is diminishing the capability of adblockers and letting malware to do bad things to you as consumers.

[hashstring]

I fully agree that Chrome is spyware.

However, they do contribute to security: Chrome was first to implement Site Isolation, sandboxing too. These are essential security features for modern browsers. They are also not doing too bad with patching and security testing.

[userbinator]

Chrome has become much worse than IE6. Microsoft was not in the business of tracking users and selling ads back then.

[therealdrag0]

It certainly doesn’t feel like I have a worse UX, as a daily chrome user.

[schubidubiduba]

That's because you're not aware enough of being spied on at every single step you make. The issues are now more or less invisible (the tracking being more, and the lobotomized adblockers being less)

[fragmede]

Was.

[userbinator]

Unfortunately, yes.

[0xbadcafebee]

He who controls the Ads, controls the Internet.

[themafia]

> Google set themselves up to be the next Microsoft

Google became a monopoly. All monopolies do this.

[cyanydeez]

there's a step before that. Google is a pure capitalist enterprize>pure capitalism goes to monopoly>all monopolies do this.

[braiamp]

Pure unregulated market, that doesn't guarantee free market assumptions does that. Capitalism doesn't need it. Without mechanisms that allow for the free entry/exit of competitors, fair and simultaneous access to information, preventing cartels/price fixing, .... a bunch of assumptions for perfect free market to happen, the market will tend towards monopolies due cumulative advantage (in econ. known as Matthew effect), since small advantages compound into dominance.

[dominicrose]

Brave feels like using Chrome. The transition was seemless even as a developer who uses the devtools. Obviously that's because it's almost the same code, but Brave is much more privacy friendly right?

[bastard_op]

Brave was found to be mostly different adware years ago I thought. It's a degoogle'd chrome essentially, but replaced with their adware instead of google's.

If you want a clean chrome, use ungoogled-chromium. Like IE6, some stuff just doesn't work in librewolf (less scummy firefox), so I use ungoogled-chromium when so, and I just don't do anything googleish on it that it latches onto google again.

[brianpbeau]

Imagine being the nerd that is still using Chrome in the YOL 2026.