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I will consider Chrome a malware from now on..
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You are absolutely nuts if you truly believe this. Google makes their money by offering advertisers a way to finely target their ads. Microsoft sells Software and services. Google has a reason to collect everything you do. Microsoft has absolutely no reason.
How is Microsoft worse than Google in data slurping? Any evidences that Edge is data mining worse than Google?
There is no evidence that Edge slurps data at all, much less worse than the spyware known as Chrome.
How to Manage the Secret Software That Google Chrome Installs on Your Mac
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For some of us (eg. me), voiding Google altogether is not possible. I don't need Chrome, but I do use Google Drive. And it seems the keystone entry keeps adding itself back. I found this old article about setting its update interval into a much less frequency than the default (which is a ridiculous every 5 hours interval based on the article).
Honestly, I wonder if your battery life has been improved simply because you rebooted when following the Google uninstall instructions ?
Just because it can, doesn't mean it needs to. Just like a few years ago it was still possible to connect hardware to browsers with java applet monstrosities, wasn't all that necessary for most users.
Honestly, it kind of make sense.
I rarely use Chrome but I always have it installed. (Sometimes for some reason if a website doesn't work in Safari, I try it in Chrome instead.)
However, I have the habit of doing a "clean install" once or twice a year. I know that a Mac shouldn't need that (No registry), but I've always felt that eventually MacOS feel "unstable" and "sluggish" eventually, and after a clean install I get the feeling that everything is quicker and more stable.
Now I realize the reason may be that I rarely install Chrome right after a clean install, that I often install it only when I feel I need to try a website in Chrome. So basically maybe all those clean installs was just a way to uninstall Chrome without realizing it
I rarely use Chrome but I always have it installed. (Sometimes for some reason if a website doesn't work in Safari, I try it in Chrome instead.)
However, I have the habit of doing a "clean install" once or twice a year. I know that a Mac shouldn't need that (No registry), but I've always felt that eventually MacOS feel "unstable" and "sluggish" eventually, and after a clean install I get the feeling that everything is quicker and more stable.
Now I realize the reason may be that I rarely install Chrome right after a clean install, that I often install it only when I feel I need to try a website in Chrome. So basically maybe all those clean installs was just a way to uninstall Chrome without realizing it
Actually there is plenty of evidence of it doing so.
In an enterprise situation you can control what actually gets sent back to the Microsoft mothership (with extensive and strict group policy utilisation anyway), in consumer land the default is for all products to send everything back to Microsoft. The option to turn it off only exists because the EU used carrot or stick methodology (Why N versions are available for download in Europe of all Microsoft software distributions).
Most notable with Chromium Edge was when it was released, it was heavily reported that the Windows version was automatically slurping configurations, bookmarks, browsing history etc without any permission given.
Very minimal differences between different OS versions besides operating system specific implementations.
Sure, but I don't use Google's 2FA nor do I own any Chromecast devices at all. There's really no reason at all to access it.
Not using either their 2FA nor any of their hardware inside the house at all. There is *NO* reason for them to seek to access anything on Bluetooth.
Thanks for that personal attack. Noted.
After a 140 posts and without any references, I have no idea what you are responding to. So, BS for sure but not sure where.HAHAHAHA HAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA no.
Sorry about that, my BS detector overloaded. What a load of ****
This is real. I am not sure why those people not trying to see for themselves.
With google chrome running. Browsing same content with Chrome:
This is under Safari browsing some contents:
Chrome takes out your 55% computing power vs Safari's 5%
With google chrome running. Browsing same content with Chrome:
This is under Safari browsing some contents:
Chrome takes out your 55% computing power vs Safari's 5%
Command + Shift + 4 is your friend - taking photos instead of using screengrab is silly.
Seems like an Intel problem more than a macOS problem to be fair, I can replicate that at work, but on my own M1, next to nothing.
(Ignore the highlighted process, was having fun trying to kill it - on M1 Electron based apps like Discord are the new king resource hog, as Rosetta seemingly cannot translate it efficiently).
Maybe whatever phone home software Google has bundled with Chrome hasn’t been updated for M1 yet. Give them a little bit and they’ll have your CPU working for them soon ??♂️
If you want to get away from Google invading your privacy but still like Chrome as a browser - try one of these versions:
chromium.woolyss.com
esp. the ungoogled chromium one has all code removed that contacts Google servers. Widevine+codecs are supported but obviously no syncing or auto-updates. Also no AArch64 version .. yet.
Download latest stable Chromium binaries (64-bit and 32-bit)
Download latest stable Chromium binaries for Windows, Mac, Linux, BSD and Android (64-bit and 32-bit)
chromium.woolyss.com
esp. the ungoogled chromium one has all code removed that contacts Google servers. Widevine+codecs are supported but obviously no syncing or auto-updates. Also no AArch64 version .. yet.
I REALLY do not like Chrome these days. However, is YouTube still "works best" on Chrome? In the past I have tried Microsoft Edge (both Windows and macOS), Safari, and Brave (Windows and macOS) and YouTube would always be a buggy experience. But on Chrome it was always perfect. Has this changed?
Firefox is a direct descendant of Netscape Navigator and thus NCSA Mosaic (circa 1992).
Did you know that Netscape Communications was originally named Mosaic Communications but had to change because of trademark issues?
I've been using Firefox and its predecessors since 1993. Similarly I've been using Mozilla Thunderbird and its predecessors since the mid-Nineties, tracing their lineage back to Netscape Communicator (web browsing, e-mail/USENET, HTML editor).
Good times, good times.
Discord has really been irritating me. I was concerned about this, so I posted in the Discord reddit and my post was removed because they don't like discussing issues.
This is some neat info. For some reason I preferred Netscape in the late 90s. I even ordered a disc off the Netscape website, I think. I’d use Netscape mail too, for my ISP’s email. When I got a PowerBook in something like 2003, I started using Safari and then at some point switched to Firefox and never really looked back.