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Who uses Chrome anyway? .. Question: I'm not a web dev, Ive never heard of this. I currently use adblock plus and privacy badger. Does this do what they do? W

Who uses Chrome anyway? .. Question: I'm not a web dev, Ive never heard of this. I currently use adblock plus and privacy badger. Does this do what they do? Would it be a good idea to install them all? If not which solution do you think is the most hardcore in terms of privacy. thanks!

iUsedToCode 10y ago
Consider using Ublock Origin, lightweight, more honest and well behaving adblocker.
pimlottc 10y ago
> Who uses Chrome anyway? Over 50% of all desktop users [0], or, in other words, hundreds of millions of people. 0: https://www.netmarketshare.com/browser-market-share.aspx?qprid=0&qpcustomd=0 https://www.netmarketshare.com/browser-market-share.aspx?qpr...
- ryandrake 10y ago
  GP should have asked "Who uses Chrome AND is privacy conscious enough to be interested in this?" Those demographics shouldn't really overlap much. It's like making a product for people who like hanging around in a casino but don't like gambling.
  - jstanley 10y ago
    I use Chromium because Firefox's performance is too terrible, but I consider myself privacy-conscious.
    - gog 10y ago
      Where do you get the binaries? Or do you build it yourself?
      - jstanley 10y ago
        I use Ubuntu. I get the binaries out of apt.
    - squarefoot 10y ago
      Take a look at Palemoon. A Firefox fork with speed in mind. https://www.palemoon.org/ https://www.palemoon.org/
  - deleted 10y ago
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  - hshussb 10y ago
    They do overlap. I'm privacy conscious but I feel myself forced to use Chrome because the alternative, Firefox, has subpar security features (no sandbox, no process separation) and terrible performance.
xkcd-sucks 10y ago
I use it at work, where I don't expect tons of privacy to begin with. Google keeps trying to recruit me based on my search data...
- GlickWick 10y ago
  They're just recruiting based on specific search terms. It's not your search data or related to your browser. If you find a search term that pops up the recruiting message, you can send it to your friends and they'll be able to get it to appear as well. It's pretty pointless anyways.
pixdamix 10y ago
> Who uses Chrome anyway? Anyone who's (or should be) a little bit concerned about security ? Firefox has been absent from 2016's Pwn2Own contest because of insuffisant "security improvements in the last year". This may change with the Electrolysis project[1] [1]: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis

iUsedToCode 10y ago

Consider using Ublock Origin, lightweight, more honest and well behaving adblocker.

pimlottc 10y ago

> Who uses Chrome anyway? Over 50% of all desktop users [0], or, in other words, hundreds of millions of people. 0: https://www.netmarketshare.com/browser-market-share.aspx?qprid=0&qpcustomd=0 https://www.netmarketshare.com/browser-market-share.aspx?qpr...

ryandrake 10y ago
GP should have asked "Who uses Chrome AND is privacy conscious enough to be interested in this?" Those demographics shouldn't really overlap much. It's like making a product for people who like hanging around in a casino but don't like gambling.
- jstanley 10y ago
  I use Chromium because Firefox's performance is too terrible, but I consider myself privacy-conscious.
  - gog 10y ago
    Where do you get the binaries? Or do you build it yourself?
    - jstanley 10y ago
      I use Ubuntu. I get the binaries out of apt.
  - squarefoot 10y ago
    Take a look at Palemoon. A Firefox fork with speed in mind. https://www.palemoon.org/ https://www.palemoon.org/
- deleted 10y ago
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- hshussb 10y ago
  They do overlap. I'm privacy conscious but I feel myself forced to use Chrome because the alternative, Firefox, has subpar security features (no sandbox, no process separation) and terrible performance.

xkcd-sucks 10y ago

I use it at work, where I don't expect tons of privacy to begin with. Google keeps trying to recruit me based on my search data...

GlickWick 10y ago
They're just recruiting based on specific search terms. It's not your search data or related to your browser. If you find a search term that pops up the recruiting message, you can send it to your friends and they'll be able to get it to appear as well. It's pretty pointless anyways.

pixdamix 10y ago

> Who uses Chrome anyway? Anyone who's (or should be) a little bit concerned about security ? Firefox has been absent from 2016's Pwn2Own contest because of insuffisant "security improvements in the last year". This may change with the Electrolysis project[1] [1]: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis