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Chrome is the new IE6. Google set themselves up to be the next Microsoft and is "ad friendly" in all the creepy ways because that's what Google IS an ad company

Chrome is the new IE6. Google set themselves up to be the next Microsoft and is "ad friendly" in all the creepy ways because that's what Google IS an ad company. All they've contributed to security is diminishing the capability of adblockers and letting malware to do bad things to you as consumers.

0xbadcafebee 8mo ago
He who controls the Ads, controls the Internet.
themafia 8mo ago
> Google set themselves up to be the next Microsoft Google became a monopoly. All monopolies do this.
- cyanydeez 8mo ago
  there's a step before that. Google is a pure capitalist enterprize>pure capitalism goes to monopoly>all monopolies do this.
  - braiamp 8mo ago
    Pure unregulated market, that doesn't guarantee free market assumptions does that. Capitalism doesn't need it. Without mechanisms that allow for the free entry/exit of competitors, fair and simultaneous access to information, preventing cartels/price fixing, .... a bunch of assumptions for perfect free market to happen, the market will tend towards monopolies due cumulative advantage (in econ. known as Matthew effect), since small advantages compound into dominance.
brianpbeau 8mo ago
Imagine being the nerd that is still using Chrome in the YOL 2026.
userbinator 8mo ago
Chrome has become much worse than IE6. Microsoft was not in the business of tracking users and selling ads back then.
- therealdrag0 8mo ago
  It certainly doesn’t feel like I have a worse UX, as a daily chrome user.
  - schubidubiduba 8mo ago
    That's because you're not aware enough of being spied on at every single step you make. The issues are now more or less invisible (the tracking being more, and the lobotomized adblockers being less)
- fragmede 8mo ago
  Was.
  - userbinator 8mo ago
    Unfortunately, yes.
hashstring 8mo ago
I fully agree that Chrome is spyware. However, they do contribute to security: Chrome was first to implement Site Isolation, sandboxing too. These are essential security features for modern browsers. They are also not doing too bad with patching and security testing.
dominicrose 8mo ago
Brave feels like using Chrome. The transition was seemless even as a developer who uses the devtools. Obviously that's because it's almost the same code, but Brave is much more privacy friendly right?
- bastard_op 8mo ago
  Brave was found to be mostly different adware years ago I thought. It's a degoogle'd chrome essentially, but replaced with their adware instead of google's. If you want a clean chrome, use ungoogled-chromium. Like IE6, some stuff just doesn't work in librewolf (less scummy firefox), so I use ungoogled-chromium when so, and I just don't do anything googleish on it that it latches onto google again.

0xbadcafebee 8mo ago

He who controls the Ads, controls the Internet.

themafia 8mo ago

> Google set themselves up to be the next Microsoft Google became a monopoly. All monopolies do this.

cyanydeez 8mo ago
there's a step before that. Google is a pure capitalist enterprize>pure capitalism goes to monopoly>all monopolies do this.
- braiamp 8mo ago
  Pure unregulated market, that doesn't guarantee free market assumptions does that. Capitalism doesn't need it. Without mechanisms that allow for the free entry/exit of competitors, fair and simultaneous access to information, preventing cartels/price fixing, .... a bunch of assumptions for perfect free market to happen, the market will tend towards monopolies due cumulative advantage (in econ. known as Matthew effect), since small advantages compound into dominance.

brianpbeau 8mo ago

Imagine being the nerd that is still using Chrome in the YOL 2026.

userbinator 8mo ago

Chrome has become much worse than IE6. Microsoft was not in the business of tracking users and selling ads back then.

therealdrag0 8mo ago
It certainly doesn’t feel like I have a worse UX, as a daily chrome user.
- schubidubiduba 8mo ago
  That's because you're not aware enough of being spied on at every single step you make. The issues are now more or less invisible (the tracking being more, and the lobotomized adblockers being less)
fragmede 8mo ago
Was.
- userbinator 8mo ago
  Unfortunately, yes.

hashstring 8mo ago

I fully agree that Chrome is spyware. However, they do contribute to security: Chrome was first to implement Site Isolation, sandboxing too. These are essential security features for modern browsers. They are also not doing too bad with patching and security testing.

dominicrose 8mo ago

Brave feels like using Chrome. The transition was seemless even as a developer who uses the devtools. Obviously that's because it's almost the same code, but Brave is much more privacy friendly right?

bastard_op 8mo ago
Brave was found to be mostly different adware years ago I thought. It's a degoogle'd chrome essentially, but replaced with their adware instead of google's. If you want a clean chrome, use ungoogled-chromium. Like IE6, some stuff just doesn't work in librewolf (less scummy firefox), so I use ungoogled-chromium when so, and I just don't do anything googleish on it that it latches onto google again.