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> i just don't see the point, from a consumer perspective, in all the major players fighting over who's version of Chromium is the most preferred I imagine the
by prepend 5y ago
> i just don't see the point, from a consumer perspective, in all the major players fighting over who's version of Chromium is the most preferred
I imagine the telemetry is extremely important. Knowing every activity done by every user is valuable to Google, or Microsoft, or whoever gets the chrome feed. Of course this is why I like brave, FireFox, safari and others as there is no similar telemetry.
- throwaway946513 5y agoNice thing about Firefox: about:telemetry Full details on what is sent to Mozilla, how it's used, and easy to understand. Additionally, if you don't like what's being sent, you're still able to disable telemetry.
- kgeist 5y agoMicrosoft controls the OS, they already can track activity of any userland program, can't they?
- prepend 5y agoI suppose they can, but that would be a new low to inspect the memory of their competitors processes to monitor traffic. With most chrome traffic SSL, I don’t think they could tell much from the network traffic. If Microsoft started doing this, it would be a lot of negative attention. Whereas Chrome users haven’t cared about logging stuff for years now.
- kgeist 5y ago>With most chrome traffic SSL, I don’t think they could tell much from the network traffic. It's encrypted in transit, but it has to be decrypted to be meaningful to the end user and that's where they can eavesdrop, the kernel has full access to user memory and all syscalls, no? >If Microsoft started doing this, it would be a lot of negative attention They have a proprietary closed source kernel which can be reverse engineered by very few people outside Microsoft, I think putting a little backdoor there would be less noticeable than showing a message box to every user.