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Chrome's the fastest browser on the market. That, along with some nice marketing strategy is what makes it the absolute market leader. The reason Chrome is so

Chrome's the fastest browser on the market. That, along with some nice marketing strategy is what makes it the absolute market leader. The reason Chrome is so fast, is most likely thanks to the performance (harmless) data it collects. Firefox may be proud of not collecting as much data, but (at least on macOS) they spend twice the battery to render twice as slow. Not saying you shouldn't be able to choose what data you're collected (which, you are) but there are reasons (not necessarily evil) to get that data to the devs.

bassman9000 6y ago
what makes it the absolute market leader What makes it the absolute leader is the void left by a dismal IE, and a completely lost Firefox, a few years back. Today's lead is coasting. I don't know OSx, but perceived performance in Linux/Windows is not any better than today's Firefox/Chromium derivatives, if any at all. You keep saying "harmless", and keep missing the point. If you don't want data to be used against users, don't collect it. And use explicit opt-in for everything. This argument is like the classic _well, if you haven't made anything wrong, why do you care if the state collects that much info about you?_. The problem is not being harmless today. Is that, when the moment of being harmful come, then it's too late.
- greggman3 6y ago
  Today's lead isn't remotely "coasting". All you have to do is read the list of new features added every release. If Chrome was coasting that list would be empty.
Barrin92 6y ago
"nice marketing strategy" is I think a fairly strong euphemism for the ways in which Google has its tentacles in absolutely everything. From Android to search to identity through a google account, gmail, and so on. The browser itself is trivial to separate from Google, which is why (completely ungoogled) Chromium exists, but to get yourself out of the Google services web is very, very, hard.
olyjohn 6y ago
Please... 90% of users don't even know what web browser they are using. I can't count the number of times I've gone to someone's house to fix their computer, and they don't know what Internet Explorer or Chrome is. They just know what icon to click to get to the internet.

bassman9000 6y ago

what makes it the absolute market leader What makes it the absolute leader is the void left by a dismal IE, and a completely lost Firefox, a few years back. Today's lead is coasting. I don't know OSx, but perceived performance in Linux/Windows is not any better than today's Firefox/Chromium derivatives, if any at all. You keep saying "harmless", and keep missing the point. If you don't want data to be used against users, don't collect it. And use explicit opt-in for everything. This argument is like the classic _well, if you haven't made anything wrong, why do you care if the state collects that much info about you?_. The problem is not being harmless today. Is that, when the moment of being harmful come, then it's too late.

greggman3 6y ago
Today's lead isn't remotely "coasting". All you have to do is read the list of new features added every release. If Chrome was coasting that list would be empty.

Barrin92 6y ago

"nice marketing strategy" is I think a fairly strong euphemism for the ways in which Google has its tentacles in absolutely everything. From Android to search to identity through a google account, gmail, and so on. The browser itself is trivial to separate from Google, which is why (completely ungoogled) Chromium exists, but to get yourself out of the Google services web is very, very, hard.

olyjohn 6y ago

Please... 90% of users don't even know what web browser they are using. I can't count the number of times I've gone to someone's house to fix their computer, and they don't know what Internet Explorer or Chrome is. They just know what icon to click to get to the internet.