[foxylad]

Any doubts about Google's intentions are easily negated by using Chromium.

[mehrzad]

Which is unstable and does not auto update without writing a script. Google wants you to use Chrome and not Chromium.

[brokenparser]

Go to settings, advanced, privacy, untick all boxes, don't sign in to a Google account. Or Facebook, for that matter. Heck, there's even a version of Gostery for Chrome iirc.

[mehrzad]

I'd rather support Firefox, to be honest. I still like a lot of what Google does, fwiw.

[dgesang]

How about Comodo Dragon[1], a free and stable Chromium based browser, with 'auto updates' ;)

[1] http://bit.ly/cjbh1z

[mehrzad]

Not open source, IIRC.

[gcr]

Neither is Chrome.

[mehrzad]

I don't use Chrome, I use Firefox (and occasionally Webkit Nightly, and I have Chromium installed)