I agree that software (especially "platform-y" software like web browsers) vendors have responsibility to provide informative and unobtrusive UI, in order to (a

I agree that software (especially "platform-y" software like web browsers) vendors have responsibility to provide informative and unobtrusive UI, in order to (among other reasons) protect users from malware. I also agree that Chrome doesn't do a great job here, and that web notifications need a lot of re-thinking across the board. But I don't agree with the leap to "Google Chrome is malware." Chrome isn't doing enough to protect their users from notifications from malicious websites, but I reject the sensationalist conclusion that Google Chrome itself is malware.