Why You Suddenly Need To Delete Google Chrome
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Why you suddenly need to quit Google Chrome
While Facebook steals the headlines, Google’ alarming new update that hasn’t yet made headlines puts Chrome’s 2.6 billion users at risk of “surveillance, manipulation and abuse.”
Why You Suddenly Need To Delete Google Chrome
Billions of users warned to quit Chrome as new tracking nightmare comes true...
forbes.com
6:16 AM · Oct 2, 2021
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2021/10/02/stop-using-google-chrome-on-windows-10-android-and-apple-iphones-ipads-and-macs/?sh=6d81630a2f30
An alarming new update from Google that hasn’t yet made headlines has suddenly put Chrome’s 2.6 billion users at risk of “surveillance, manipulation and abuse.” If you’re one of those users, this nasty new surprise just gave you a reason to quit.
Chrome has serious issues when it comes to protecting your security and your privacy. The world’s leading browser has issued one urgent fix after another this year, as high-risk exploits have been found in the wild; and just a few weeks ago, Google finally admitted it had “accidentally” allowed millions of users to be secretly tracked.
Google says it wants to change, to put your privacy first, that web tracking is now out of control and has resulted in “an erosion of trust.” But as DuckDuckGo warns, “it’s all noise until Google actually agrees to collect less data and do less behavioral targeting.”
The latest tracking nightmare for Chrome users comes in two parts. First, Google has ignored security warnings and launched a new Chrome API to detect and report when you’re “idle,” i.e., not actively using your device. Apple warns “this is an obvious privacy concern,” and Mozilla that it’s “too tempting an opportunity for surveillance.”
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I've been using Chrome for years now. Originally switched when one of my favorite websites stopped working properly on Firefox. I can't even remember what the problem was now, but I had been a loyal Firefox fan up until then.
Once I tried Chrome, I liked it so much that I started using it for everything and have never looked back. At this point, it would take a lot more than the vague threats in that article make me consider switching back. You'd have to pry it out of my cold, dead hands! 
"They" will know.
Shhhhh.
It's smarter to keep Google Chrome and use it to do searches like "Why I love the Defense Industry"
Q is definitely either in front of or behind this, and also maybe the GooGx47 permutation. You could bet on it if you wanted to. I've heard that many people are saying this.
Every browser out there tracks you in some way or another.
If you accept cookies, you are being tracked.
If you send an email, you can be traced. Emails exist a long long time out in the wild.
If you do anything at all on the WWW your are probably being tracked and traced in some form or another.
If you use a cell phone you can be traced.
Shop at the grocer using that little plastic rewards card and your detailed shopping habits ARE being tracked.
If you live in a cave, wash your clothes and bathe in the creek, grow your own food from wild seeds, trap small animals for food, make your own clothes and shoes and furniture...maybe you can stay out of view of the satellites in orbit or the planes flying over head that may take pictures for Google maps, and not be tracked.
I work in the IT security field. Browsers and the WWW are not meant to be private. They are usually provided free of charge, and financed by the advertising industry. Most use some form of tracking. Chromium based browsers are a dime a dozen...there are many that limit the tracking, but none eliminate all of it. Mozilla based browsers can be loose or tight security wise. Those who have the technical ability can harden all of these to some extent...but to lock them down 100% means that they will not work well.
Most of the tracking is not meant to identify you personally, but your shopping habits for ad placement. And face it, no one is really interested in the particulars of each of the 7 Billion or so who live on spaceship Earth. We greatly inflate our own importance.
The wired (or wireless) 21st Century is NOT the century of privacy. Learn to protect yourself as you can (VPN, 2-Factor authentication, learn how to spot the bad people, secure pass phrases, which cookies are safe and which are dangerous) and get over it.
Been using chrome for years, despite all of the surveillance alerts which initially sent me a skittering, downloading duck duck go etc. complete waste of time and mental energy, it should understood by now.
I'm not an IT person on any level. but at this point I'm fully aware that all of our devices is being monitored primarily for commercial purposes, and they have that nailed to a science. On the other hand
Govt intel agencies, seem to be doing a really lousy job if the last five years hasn't revealed that much.
everything we do now is done electronically. I even have my proof of covid vaccination on my phone with Ca state verification QC.
The tech industry Surveillance ship sailed a long time ago, if anyone uses the computer, a cell phone or streaming Roku, this alert is pointless.
Because I play/learn a very specific genre of music, I'm really glad google/youtube has a handle on my personal interests saves me a lot of time hunting certain things down.
me too.
If it's not Chrome it's Facebook.
If it's not Facebook it's Amazon.
If it's not Amazon it's Uncle Sam.
It's like people being afraid the covid vaccine contains something that can be used to track them. OF COURSE IT DOESN'T, but even if it did, that fear is absurd,, because we're all being tracked already, in tons of different ways, including many we'll never be aware of.
I have to laugh at the ad tracking on Chrome. They show me the same exact things, over and over. Sometimes I get two identical ads on the same page at the same time. Chrome really doesn't have much imagination. 
I'm a 75 year old flat chested guy.
I think Chrome needs to work on their data in my file.
Good 'ol Netscape Navigator. 
