> Chrome's dominance of the Web is very scary. Not as scary as IE's, since it's open source, but still, it's such a huge beast that it's almost proprietary thro

> Chrome's dominance of the Web is very scary. Not as scary as IE's, since it's open source, but still, it's such a huge beast that it's almost proprietary through complexity. I don't know if there's an easy solution out of this. I'd say that Chrome's dominance is much scarier than IE's. One reason has to do with user data. When IE was dominant, user data was not nearly as valuable. Today, user data is how Google makes money, so they are strongly incentivised to harvest it. While I understand Chrome isn't exactly the source of the harvesting, it reinforces reliance on Google services for the vast majority of users.