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I don't use Chrome or Chromium because I'm not happy with advertising companies deciding how the web should develop. Companies who's very survival is based on b

I don't use Chrome or Chromium because I'm not happy with advertising companies deciding how the web should develop. Companies who's very survival is based on being able to extract information about users, being empowered to pick and choose what goes into modern web browsers due to market share? Great idea, with no possible long term damage.

dmix 10y ago
Better not watch any TV shows, read newspapers, or use any search engines either then. They are all financed by ads. /s Chromium is the best product on the market. I honestly don't see what negative influence Google's business model has on it. I use Duckduckgo as my default search engine and Google doesn't do any monitoring/tracking in Chrome, despite what most people think.
- mike-cardwell 10y ago
  Nice straw man. Firefox is the best product on the market. Google makes money from tracking people on the web. They will not introduce or develop new technology to their web browser which hits that revenue stream hard. By using Chrome or Chromium you are giving them market share and therefore power to shape the future of the web. The future of the web under Googles custodian is more advertising, more tracking and less privacy. It's pretty obvious.
- tripzilch 10y ago
  Hey everyone has their own preferences. I try out a different browser every once in a while, or you may lose out on a feature that the "other" side has, or maybe a degradation that is not. Way back when, the great eagle king of browsers used to be Opera, no competition :) But those days are long gone (and after they fired the Presto team, the only similarity today is the name of the company, don't even bother). Currently am using Firefox. Recently gave Chromium a good try for a month or so, for my personal experiences, right now best product on the market is Firefox. The address bar / search bar in Chromium is just inferior--you only get ~five autocompletes from your history and bookmarks, total. That basically means there's a reasonable chance the thing you're looking for will appear, but it's not really something you can rely on to navigate the personal knowledge base of bookmarks and history. Not talking about search suggestions btw. The other thing is Firefox Android supports Add-ons, so you can have uBlock and Ghostery on your phone (not even sure why anyone would even begin to consider a browser that doesn't support adblocking?) and Firefox Sync works well, to connect to the desktop and back (gave Pocket a try, didn't like it). I also use DDG as default search in Firefox, very useful with the bang syntaxes, more powerful than Google (which is just a !g away anyhow). Also in Chromium, so the address bar feels more familiar and somewhat makes up for its lack of power :)

dmix 10y ago

Better not watch any TV shows, read newspapers, or use any search engines either then. They are all financed by ads. /s Chromium is the best product on the market. I honestly don't see what negative influence Google's business model has on it. I use Duckduckgo as my default search engine and Google doesn't do any monitoring/tracking in Chrome, despite what most people think.

mike-cardwell 10y ago
Nice straw man. Firefox is the best product on the market. Google makes money from tracking people on the web. They will not introduce or develop new technology to their web browser which hits that revenue stream hard. By using Chrome or Chromium you are giving them market share and therefore power to shape the future of the web. The future of the web under Googles custodian is more advertising, more tracking and less privacy. It's pretty obvious.
tripzilch 10y ago
Hey everyone has their own preferences. I try out a different browser every once in a while, or you may lose out on a feature that the "other" side has, or maybe a degradation that is not. Way back when, the great eagle king of browsers used to be Opera, no competition :) But those days are long gone (and after they fired the Presto team, the only similarity today is the name of the company, don't even bother). Currently am using Firefox. Recently gave Chromium a good try for a month or so, for my personal experiences, right now best product on the market is Firefox. The address bar / search bar in Chromium is just inferior--you only get ~five autocompletes from your history and bookmarks, total. That basically means there's a reasonable chance the thing you're looking for will appear, but it's not really something you can rely on to navigate the personal knowledge base of bookmarks and history. Not talking about search suggestions btw. The other thing is Firefox Android supports Add-ons, so you can have uBlock and Ghostery on your phone (not even sure why anyone would even begin to consider a browser that doesn't support adblocking?) and Firefox Sync works well, to connect to the desktop and back (gave Pocket a try, didn't like it). I also use DDG as default search in Firefox, very useful with the bang syntaxes, more powerful than Google (which is just a !g away anyhow). Also in Chromium, so the address bar feels more familiar and somewhat makes up for its lack of power :)