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Too little, too late. The cat is really and truly out of the bag. As Microsoft did with Windows 10 Google have done with Chrome they have moved the capture of
by lrpublic 8y ago
Too little, too late. The cat is really and truly out of the bag.
As Microsoft did with Windows 10 Google have done with Chrome they have moved the capture of telemetry and personal data from their network to the users platform.
In the case of Chrome the community have the choice to fork our platform and thank google for their contribution, but say no thanks to thier continued stuardship of it.
Sometimes I wonder if senior execs really understand how precarious open source based business models are - like politics we can vote and change the leaders if they stop acting for the common good.
- hendzen 8y agoWho is committing to chrome? Who is fixing bugs reported by users? Google employees. The community is... mostly users. Any fork of Chrome will likely fail, because there is no magical community of privacy minded developers that has the time and expertise to develop Chrome, which is a massive and highly complex piece of software. If you really feel this way, just switch to Firefox. Mozilla actually has a team of developers who fix and improve it. Note that a majority of Mozilla's funding comes from royalties paid by Google for ads clicked on SERPs inbound from the Google search box. So Google has the power to control Mozilla if they really needed to.
- lrpublic 8y agoLook at Centos - it’s quite possible to follow Google’s releases stripping out the ‘evil’
- a_imho 8y agoThe cat is really and truly out of the bag. Google did the same with Gmail/youtube/etc ages ago, even creating a new profile if you did not have one for a particular service. No one bat an eye.