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I just want to point out that you're making a false equivalency. "I would trust Chrome with my data over any other browser" - you don't _have_ to trust other br
by _dark_matter_ 8y ago
I just want to point out that you're making a false equivalency. "I would trust Chrome with my data over any other browser" - you don't _have_ to trust other browsers with your data. You can run them without any data collection at all.
- pkasting 8y agoFalse dichotomy. You provide all browsers with data by using them; the question is what they do with that data. Chrome is not materially different than other browsers in the level of control you're able to have over what gets sent elsewhere. You can very easily set it so the only thing the server sees is a "check if an update is available." If you're using Chromium instead of Chrome, then you don't have the updater, so even that is not present. See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Chrome#Listening_capabilities https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Chrome#Listening_capabi... , which is a reasonable summary with more detail than what I've given above. For full details, see https://www.google.com/chrome/privacy/whitepaper.html https://www.google.com/chrome/privacy/whitepaper.html .