Contrachrome
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Someone updated the Chrome pre-release promotional comic for the current 2022 version of Chrome.
An interesting look at all the dataz Google collects about you when you use Chrome (and Android) and what they do with it.
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Oh well, I guess I'll continue not using Chrome, then.
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@Steve_The_Cynic Soon all browsers will be Chrome.
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@Carnage you'll soon understand that this is for the best, Dave.
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@Parody said in Contrachrome:
@Steve_The_Cynic Soon all browsers will be Chrome.
Sounds like a good reason to continue with my iPhone, where all browsers are Safari...
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I do have to wonder how genuine this was in 2008:
Because it is true; Google does benefit quite uniformly from more people spending more time on the web, without any nefarious browser shenanigans necessary.
So was establishing a browser near-monopoly and pinning browsing habits to specific individuals always an intent, or “just” a perk they’ve picked up along the way?
Aside: imagine being any of the people involved in cutting “don’t be evil”. I wonder what they thought about doing that.
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@kazitor said in Contrachrome:
I do have to wonder how genuine this was in 2008:
Aside: imagine being any of the people involved in cutting “don’t be evil”. I wonder what they thought about doing that.
Damn hippies.
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@kazitor said in Contrachrome:
I do have to wonder how genuine this was in 2008:
Not in the slightest. As usual for Google+OSS, Google's product, in this case the Chrome browser, is a chunk more than just the OSS part (Chromium).
Because it is true; Google does benefit quite uniformly from more people spending more time on the web, without any nefarious browser shenanigans necessary.
And yet they've done the browser shenanigans thing...
So was establishing a browser near-monopoly and pinning browsing habits to specific individuals always an intent, or “just” a perk they’ve picked up along the way?
Probably not, as such, in its origin, an intention, but along the way, something changed.
Aside: imagine being any of the people involved in cutting “don’t be evil”. I wonder what they thought about doing that.
Good question.
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@kazitor said in Contrachrome:
So was establishing a browser near-monopoly and pinning browsing habits to specific individuals always an intent, or “just” a perk they’ve picked up along the way?
They invested way too much in that browser if it was just for improving the web
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It might have started out with some modicum of genuine desire to improve the web, but what's good for the web is good for Google.
At this stage I'm not even sure if the spying is pathological, like there's a need to spy regardless of its value in the hopes the data might be useful.
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@kazitor said in Contrachrome:
Aside: imagine being any of the people involved in cutting “don’t be evil”. I wonder what they thought about doing that.
When the O5 council fires the entire ethics committee.
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@Shoreline we pentaprimii, of course, constitute in ourselves an ethics council. The fatal flaws in the mehum understanding of ethics are your problem. Not ours.
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@Gribnit said in Contrachrome:
@Shoreline we pentaprimii, of course, constitute in ourselves an ethics council. The fatal flaws in the mehum understanding of ethics are your problem. Not ours.
Write that SCP story.
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@Shoreline said in Contrachrome:
@Gribnit said in Contrachrome:
@Shoreline we pentaprimii, of course, constitute in ourselves an ethics council. The fatal flaws in the mehum understanding of ethics are your problem. Not ours.
Write that SCP story.
Every day, man. Every day.
Contra Chrome – a webcomic – How Google's browser became a threat to privacy and democracy
