I should also 'know better', yet I still use chrome despite a growing distrust of google. I agree with the parent comment's observation that it's no good blami

I should also 'know better', yet I still use chrome despite a growing distrust of google. I agree with the parent comment's observation that it's no good blaming users; other browsers need to make a compelling case. There's a saying in YC lore that a new app has to be an order of magnitude better for people to switch, but I think other browsers are approximately as good as chrome (but not 10x better). The greatest concern for me is privacy; I presume the org who makes the browser sees a list of every action I do on the internet, so I have to be able to 1. know who they are and 2. trust them (or, distrust them less than I do Google). There's probably also some 'safety in numbers' heuristic to browser choice too.