Google’s browser not only got new chrome, it now also uses keeps track of all websites you visit to generate a topic list for ads that is shared with websites directly. Nobody asked for that.
I mean, it will, because unfortunately there’s still a ton of people who have that whole “So? Everyone does it, and they already have my info anyway. And there’s nothing we can do about that so why bother.” mindset.
Still, this is going to cause a massive privacy lawsuit.
This will never end. People keep justifying continuing to use Chrome/Windows/etc because “this sucks but I can tolerate it”. And next week there will be a new anti-user feature. And next week a new one. And another. People incrementally adjust their tolerance, as if all they have to do is compromise “this much” and that will be the last time.
At least in the case of Windows I can understand it, since its stranglehold on the OS market makes it so it’s legitimately very, very difficult for people to switch since they’ll often rely on Windows-only software that might also work poorly in Wine on Linux, if it works at all. My mom uses many such pieces of software for her job. Chrome though, it feels like there really is no real reason to keep using it other than plainly being stubborn and/or afraid of change. Chrome doesn’t even barely have any real killer features other than Google having intentionally made using some of their services slightly worse to use on Firefox, which I would hardly call a “feature” either.
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