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Google Chrome ships a default, hidden extension that allows code on *.google.com access to private APIs, including your current CPU usage (fedi.simonwillison.net)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] _sideffect@lemmy.world 20 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Why do people still use Chrome?

Please uninstall it from everyone's home pc and phone that you come into contact with

[–] Tja@programming.dev 26 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Because it's fast and works well enough to keep the fame acquired over the last 10 years.

[–] _sideffect@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

At the cost of zero privacy, data being stolen and other fundamental issues and morals that Google lacks.

[–] IronKrill@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Which is invisible to users, meaning they can ignore it or handwave it with "I haven't got anything to hide".

[–] RobotZap10000@feddit.nl 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Or worse, "They already know everything about me, so why bother?". One of my relatives says this. Kill me now.

[–] 4am@lemm.ee 0 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Slower than Firefox

[–] Tja@programming.dev 8 points 4 months ago

I use both for my job and my subjective feeling is that chrome is faster. Js benchmarks seems to confirm it. Privately I use Firefox 95% of the time but I understand people who stay on chrome just out of inertia.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

I'm a Firefox user on desktop and mobile, and I definitely feel like Chrome is faster on both platforms when I (have to) use it. But I prefer Firefox for the ideology and dev tools (on desktop), since I'm a web developer by trade, so the dev tools make a big difference for me.

[–] IronKrill@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 months ago

There was a short period a few years ago after the Quantum update that I would have partially agreed, because Firefox's renderer was much smoother. But Chrome seems to have caught up, because it's been much faster every time I test something in it in the yesrs since.