"Police! We saw your electricity bill! You're growing weed in there!"

"No no, I use chrome"

"Ok carry on"

a decade or more ago chrome was the nice new browser endorsed by techies replacing evil IE. kinda funny thinking back now

Anybody know a good guide for getting off of Google? It's woven into a lot of my phone

This reminds me of back when I first tried Chrome some many years back. I didn't like it so I uninstalled it and a few days later it was back again without me having done anything other than shutting down & restarting my PC. Had to dig deep into parts you don't ever need to touch for a normal uninstall to get rid of it for good and vowed to never install Chrome again because this is peak virus behaviour. Stuck with Firefox through it's absolute lowest performance because of this, too.

Now I do have to deal with Chrome at work and I really hate it. Sadly the CEO loves Chrome so what can you do...

I was already dumpstering them for the ublock nonsense so this just gives me smug satisfaction.

I wonder if disabling the Chrome app on android helps. I've had it disabled for a while. I occasionally run into a page or app integration that fails and have to re enable it temporarily but I always go back and disable it. Fuck Google.

they got caught trying secretely install android spyware core app , they were testing the waters.

Ungoogled Chromium, for those addicts.

Or Chromite.

"...without consent."

Reminder: Chrome is a closed-source, proprietary browser. It has been able to do anything it wants without your consent since it was created.

Their energy estimates are way off. 240wh/4gb download is too high by 100x.

It's not clear that there is a privacy argument. That address bar content is sent to google was always the case.

There is a bloatware argument especially if the only added functionality is form-fill which was done fairly satisfactorily without the 4gb download.

OTOH, gemini nano is now effectively open weight model if it, and it is likely a hack will permit user access to the bloat tax.

If downloading a 4GB file is such a climate disaster, I think we need to examine stuff like the Nvidia driver (0.7GB), games, all of npm, etc.