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I use Chromium, not Chrome, but it doesn't matter. Software vendors should not be allowed to do this. Imagine if you hired an electrician but he would secretly

I use Chromium, not Chrome, but it doesn't matter. Software vendors should not be allowed to do this. Imagine if you hired an electrician but he would secretly go across your house and searched everything to get rid of bugs (at least that's what he said). Would you like that? If you advertise your app as a browser then it should not secretly scan files.

Spivak 9y ago
> If you advertise your app as a browser then it should not secretly scan files. Not trying to be snarky, why not? It's one of those statements that seemed obvious until I thought about it. Who even gets to decide what features something called 'X' is allowed to have? Sure, I would personally prefer that they didn't but I honestly cant think of a reason they should be forbidden from doing so. "Our users' browsers are horribly infected due to malware/adware that's not being purged. So we're including an AV to combat that" seems like enough of a justification.
- nugi 9y ago
  Why not? Secretly exfiltrating my data is plenty.