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> Chrome itself is a security nightmare, always with the mic on and listening I can understand the mic being always on as a privacy nightmare, but how is this

• atq2119 6y ago
  Lack of privacy is lack of security. This is true even if you're only interested in "hard" security concerns. For example, consider that keystrokes can be reconstructed from audio, which means that being able to record from your mic means being able to gather your passwords.
• alcoholic_byte 6y ago
  As the other guys said. And it is not just that. Chrome is, considering it's architecture and purpose, a minion in a botnet, working for google to harvest data. They even got a lawsuit pending because they were even tracking users in privacy mode. This stuff cannot happen with IE, or FF. Brave, Vivaldi, I dunno, don't use them, but I am weary that they are using the same rendering-engine (and soon Redmond as well) (well depends where the G-men(what a pun) put their mischiveous code in). Because it is a pipedream to expect a privacy-compatible product from a company that build it's empire on mining the users data to the bit.